John Trapp on Job 38:10

Verſe 10. And brake up for is my decreed place] That great houſe in the hollows of the earth, verſ. 8. gathering it together by a perpetual and powerful decree, into that place and pit. Tremellius rendreth it, Quum diffregi pro eo terram decreto mea; When I brake up for it the earth by my decree. Others, And laid upon it my Statute: for ſhabhar ſignifieth alſo ſtatuere, decernere, ſay they: but that's more than I know.

And ſet bars and doors] Vectes & valvas: See verſ. 8. This is a work of Gods great power: and is therefore much inſtanced and inſiſted upon in Scripture, Pſ. 109. Jer. 5.22, &c. God could have put many other hard queſtions to Job about the ſea[illegible: 1 letter] as, why it ſwelleth not by the inflowing of ſo many great Rivers? why the waters of it are ſo ſalt? whence it is that it ſo ebbeth and floweth, &c? Ariſtotle ſheweth himſelf no very wiſe man in anſwering theſe queſtions; whom yet Averr[illegible: 1 letter]es ſo madly admireth, that he ſaith, there is no errour at all to be found in him; and that his doctrine is the chiefeſt truth, &c.