Exposition of Job 8-10, Commentary on Job · Chapter 9 · Verses 5-10
JOB Chap. 9. Verſ. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Which ſhaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Which commandeth the Sunne, and it riſeth not: and ſealeth up the ſtarres.
Which alone ſpreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the Sea.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion and Pleiadis, and the chambers of the South.
Which doth great things paſt finding out, yea, and wonders without number.
JOB having in generall aſſerted the power and wiſdome of God (he muſt have infinite power and wiſdome againſt whom no man ever proſpered by contending.) Having I ſay aſſerted this in generall, he deſcends to make a particular proof of it; as if he had ſaid, I will not only give you this argument, that God is mighty in ſtrength, becauſe no man could ever harden his heart againſt him and proſper, he hath foyl'd all that ever medled with him: but beſides, I will give you particular inſtances of it, and you ſhall ſee that the Lord hath done ſuch things, as ſpeak him mighty in ſtrength, and prove him as powerfull, as I have reported him. Theſe particulars are reported, in the 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. verſes, all cloſed with a triumphant Elogy in the tenth,Subjicit Job confirmationem proximè praecedentis ſy…ogiſmi ab effectis potentiae & ſapientiae Dei, quae ampliſſima oratione deſcribit. Merl. Which doth great things paſt finding out; yea, and wonders without number.
The Argument may be thus formed;
He is infinite in power and wiſdome, who removeth mountains, and ſhakes the earth, who commands the Sunne, who ſpreads out the heavens, and diſpoſeth of the ſtarres in the firmament.
But the Lord doth all theſe things, he removeth mountains, he ſhakes the earth, he commandeth the Sun &c.
Therefore he is mighty in power, and infinite in wiſdome.
The firſt part of this argument is here implied. The aſſumption, or the minor, is proved in the 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. verſes, by ſo many inſtances. Here then is an evident demonſtration of the power of God from viſible things, from acts apparent to the eye; As if he had ſaid, If you have not faith to beleeve that God is infinite in power, let your ſenſes teach it you, for he removeth mountains, and they know it not, He overturneth them in his anger, &c.