Teks -- Job 38:16 (NET)

38:16 Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

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Wesley: Job 38:16 - Springs

Heb. the tears; the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes.

Wesley: Job 38:16 - Walked

Hast thou found out the utmost depth of the sea, which in divers places could never be reached by the wisest mariner? And how then canst thou fathom the depths of my counsels?

JFB: Job 38:16 - springs

Fountains beneath the sea (Psa 95:4-5).

JFB: Job 38:16 - search

Rather, "the inmost recesses"; literally, "that which is only found by searching," the deep caverns of ocean.

Clarke: Job 38:16 - Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? - Of these springs, inlets, or outlets of the sea, we know just as much as Job. There was prevalent among philosophers an opinion, that through a porous bottom fresh matter was constantly oozing by which the sea was supplied with new materials. But through such pores these materials might as well ooze out as ooze in

Clarke: Job 38:16 - Walked in the search of the depth?

Walked in the search of the depth? - Hast thou walked from the shallow beach through the great ocean’ s bed, till thou hast arrived at its profoundest depths? In other words, Dost thou know the depths of the sea? Job, we may presume, did not. No man since him has found them out. In multitudes of places they are unfathomed by any means hitherto used by man.

Defender: Job 38:16 - springs of the sea

It is only in recent years that springs have been discovered on the sea bottom. Many such scientific mysteries as "the breadth of the earth" (Job 38:18) have been explained in recent years by modern science, but many of God's questions are still unanswered today."

TSK: Job 38:16 - the springs // walked

the springs : Psa 77:19; Pro 8:24; Jer 51:36

walked : Job 26:5, Job 26:6

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Poole: Job 38:16 - The springs

The springs Heb. the tears , i.e. the several springs out of which the waters of the sea flow as tears do from the eyes. Hast thou found out the utmost depth and bottom of the sea, which in divers places could never be reached by the wisest mariner, or the longest cables? And how then canst thou fathom the depths of my counsels?

Gill: Job 38:16 - Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea // or hast thou walked in the search of the depth

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea?.... The subterraneous passages through which the waters flow into the sea and supply it; or the springs and fountains that rise up at the bottom of it ⁱ; and some tell us of springs of sweet water that rise there, even though the water at the bottom of the sea is saltier than on the surface ^k: some render it "the drops of the sea" ^l; hast thou considered them and counted them? art thou able to do it? no: others the "perplexities" of it ^m, so the Targum, the word being used in this sense, Exo 14:3; the thickets of it; some speak of woods and forests in it; see Gill on Exo 10:19; others "rocks" and shelves ⁿ, and others the "borders" of it ^o; and the sense then is, hast thou entered into and travelled through the main ocean, observed the forests in it, the shelving rocks and sandy mountains in it, and gone to the utmost borders of it?

or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? to find out the deepest place of it, where no sounding line can reach ^p; or walked in quest of the curiosities of it, animals, plants and minerals, unknown to men; or of the riches that lie at the bottom of it, for which now the diving bell is used, but not invented and known in the times of Job; and if Job had not done and could not do all this, how should he be able to enter into the secret springs of Providence, or trace the ways of God, whose way is in the sea, and whose paths are in the great waters, and his footsteps not known? Psa 77:19.