Notes: Job 38-39

English Language Bible Study Guide for January 24, 2008

Here the Lord answers Job and asks what Job knows about creation. Apparently Elihu wasn’t too far off in his last comments.

Job 38

1: Out of the whirlwind. A grand entrance for a grand God.

2-3: Is the Lord speaking of Elihu, Job’s friends, or Job? For sure, to “darken counsel by words without knowledge” is a bad thing.

An encyclopedia of nature follows. At every turn Job is asked what he knows about the subject, and what part he had in it’s creation. What do you know about these subjects?

  • 4: the foundations of the earth
  • 5: the dimensions of the earth
  • 6: how the earth hangs in space
  • 7: when the universe began
  • 8: how oceans work
  • 9: clouds and darkness
  • 12: daytime
  • 16: the source of ocean water
  • 17: death
  • 19: the source of light
  • 22: snow, hail
  • 24: wind
  • 25: lightning, thunder
  • 26: rain and plant growth
  • 28: why it rains
  • 29: why it snows or frosts
  • 31: stars, constellations
  • 34: commanding the clouds
  • 35: sending lightning
  • 37: count the clouds
  • 38: draught
  • 39: feeding lions
  • 41: feeding ravens

(Job 39)

  • 1: how goats reproduce
  • 5: how animals survive in the wild
  • 9: taming unicorns
  • 13: peacocks and ostriches
  • 19: horses
  • 26: hawks and their flight patterns
  • 27: eagles and their nests

And how much more is there that could be mentioned!

As God has created and governs His creation, we should bow before our Maker.

 

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