Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 38:21

21. Knowest thou it because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great ?

An ironical Question, If thou pretendest that thou knowest these things and ca[illegible: 1+ letters]t readily answer these Questions▪ how ▪comest thou by this knowledge? Was it from hence because thou wast born when I made the World, and that first constitution of the Light and Darkness in that order and succession which continues to this day, and thereby hadst the opportunity of inspecting my works and seeing whence the Light came, and because thou hast gained this knowledge by long experience as having lived ever since the Creation of the World until this time? Whereas in truth thou art but of yesterday, and knowest [illegible: 1+ letters]othing, as was said, Ch. 8. 9. But the words are and may be otherwise rendred, dost or didst thou know, either by thy own remembrance, or by the information of others, that thou wa[illegible: 1+ letters]t then born (to wit, when I made the World? Or, didst thou know that thou shouldst then be born, then, to wit, when thou wast born? Or, didst thou then know, the two Hebrew Particles being transplaced, as is not unusual in that Language, that thou shouldst be born? How couldst thou know this when thou hadst no being?) and that the number of thy days should be great? That thou shouldst live so long as thou hast lived. Thou couldest neither foreknow the time of thy Birth, nor the length of thy Life. Or, and is the number of thy days great? i. e. So great that it reacheth to the time of the Worlds Creation.