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“He stretches out the north over empty space and hangs the earth on
nothing.”

Job already knew that. Why did God tell him that? Look at chapter 38,
verse 8 to 11. God was telling Job that He made the seas and put a
boundary on the seas, “this far and no further”. Chapter 26, verses 8-10

“He wraps up the waters in His clouds, and the cloud does not burst
under them. He obscures the face of the full moon and spreads His
cloud over it. He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters
at the boundary of light and darkness.”
You see, Job already knew that. Chapter 38:12-15, God is telling him that
only He knows the boundaries between the light and darkness.
Chapter 26:10, Job already knew that. Chapter 38:17

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the
gates of deep darkness?”

Chapter 26:5 and 6,
“The departed spirits tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
Naked is Sheol before Him, and Abaddon has no covering.”
He says only God knows that. What about wisdom, Job? Where does
wisdom come from? Chapter 28, please, verse 12. Job asks:
“But where can wisdom be found? And where is the place of
understanding?”

Verse 23,
“God understands its way, and He knows its place.”
Job already knew that reason was not with men, that it was with God.
Look at chapter 38:31,
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of
Orion? Can you lead forth a constellation in its season, and guide
the Bear with her satellites? Do you know the ordinances of the
heavens, or fix their rule over the earth?”
Look at chapter nine, please. Job is speaking. Verse 7,

“Who commands the sun not to shine, and sets a seal upon the stars;
Who alone stretches out the heavens and tramples down the waves of
the sea; Who makes the Bear, Orion and the Pleiades, and the

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