Job 37:7 KJV — MannaFest

Job 37:7

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

KJV

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ASV

He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it.

WEB

He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

YLT

Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.

DBT

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

About this book

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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Psalms 109:27
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, Lord, hast done it.
Psalms 111:2
The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Psalms 46:8
Come, behold the works of the Lord, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
Psalms 92:4
For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Job 9:7
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.

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The plough is laid by, the shipping laid up, nothing is to be done, nothing to be got, that men, being taken off from their own work, may know his work, and contemplate that, and give him the glory of that, and, by the consideration of that work of his in the weather which seals up their hands, be led to celebrate his other great and marvellous works.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

In winter God stops man's out-of-doors activity. sealeth--closeth up (Job 9:7). Man's "hands" are then tied up. his work--in antithesis to man's own work ("hand") which at other times engages men so as to make them liable to forget their dependence on God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Sealeth - By these snows and rains he drives men out of the fields, and seals or binds up their hands from their work. That - They may seriously contemplate on these, and other great and glorious works of God.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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