Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 38:20

20. That thou shouldst take it , to the bound thereof , and that thou shouldst know the paths to the house thereof ?

i. e. Taking, bring or lead it, as this Verb is oft used, as Exod. 25. 2. Psal. 68. 29. compared with Eph. 4. 11. 1 Kings 3. 24. & 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. 10. Hosea 14. 2. And many other such pregnant Verbs there are in the Hebrew Language having the signification of two Verbs included in one. And this it refers principally to the Light, and secondarily to Darkness, as the consequent of the other.

i. e. Its whole course from the place of its abode whence it is supposed to come to the end of its journey which it is to go. Didst thou direct or guide the Light or the Sun that he should at first take and afterward constantly continue in that course which now it holds, that it should go from East to West, and rise sometimes in one point or part of the Heaven, and sometimes in another, and that its days journey should be longer in one season of the Year, and shorter in another? This regular and excellent course must needs be the effect of great Wisdom. And whose wisdom was it? thine or mine?

To wit, practically, so as to direct or lead it in the manner now expressed.

Where thou mayest find it, and whence thou mayest fetch it.

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