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Job 38:38
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when the dust hardens like cast metaland the clods of dirt stick together?
When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of eretz stick together?
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?
when the dust becomes hard and the clumps of dirt stick together?
when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together [because of the heat]?
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?
When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?
When the earth groweth into hardnesse, and the clottes are fast together?
When the dust hardens into a massAnd the clods stick together?
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?
on the dry, lumpy soil?
so that the dust becomes a mass [of mud], and its clods stick together?
When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
The rain makes the dust become mud, and the clumps of dirt stick together.
Who has poured out soil upon the earth, and who has made the steep rocks?
rain that hardens the dust into lumps?
at the flowing of the dust into a cast and the clods cling together?
when the dust is melted into hardness, and the clods cling fast together?
who turneth the clottes to dust, & the to be clottes agayne?
When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?
When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
When the dust groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
To cause the earth to grow into hardnesse, & the clots to cleaue fast together?
For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.
When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
Whanne dust was foundid in the erthe, and clottis weren ioyned togidere?
When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
When the dust hardens in clumps, And the clods cling together?
when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods?
when the dust gathers together and becomes hard?
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cling together?
When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cleave fast together?
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
groweth into hardness: or, is turned into mire, Heb. is poured
Reciprocal: Job 37:13 - whether
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?] When the dust is attenuated, and ground, as it were, into powder; and the clods cleave together, as if glued, as in a drought for want of rain: or the bottles of heaven being unstopped and poured out; or
"sprinkling the dust with this sprinkling,''
as Mr. Broughton. Or rather, pouring on the dust with pouring; that is, pouring down rain, by unstopping the bottles of heaven. The dust, as meal, by water poured into it, cements, unites, and is compacted, and becomes earth, that may be cultivated; is clodded and cleaves together, and may be ploughed and sown.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When the dust groweth into hardness - Margin, “is poured, or, is turned into mire.” The words used here relate often to metals, and to the act of pouring them out when fused, for the purpose of casting. The proper idea here is, “when the dust flows into a molten mass;” that is, when wet with rain it flows together and becomes hard. The sense is, that the rain operates on the clay as heat does on metals, and that when it is dissolved it flows together and thus becomes a solid mass. The object is to compare the effect of rain with the usual effect in casting metals.
And the clods cleave fast together - That is, they are run together by the rain. They form one mass of the same consistency, and then are baked hard by the sun.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:38. When the dust groweth into hardness — That is, Who knows how the dust - the elementary particles of matter, were concreted; and how the clods-the several parts of the earth, continue to cohere? What is the principle of cohesion among the different particles of matter, in all metals and minerals? Even water, in a solid form, constitutes a part of several gems, called thence water of crystallization. Who can solve this question? How is it that 90 parts of alumine, 7 of silex, and 1.2 of oxide of iron, constitute the oriental ruby? and that 90 parts of silex and 19 of water, form the precious opal? And how can 46 parts of silex, 14 of alumine, 28 of carbonate of lime, 6.5 of sulphate of lime, 3 of oxide of iron, and 2 of water, enter into the constitution, and form the substance, of the lapis lazuli? How do these solids and fluids of such differing natures grow into hardness, and form this curious mineral?
Take another example from that beautiful precious stone, the emerald. Its analysis shows it to be composed of glucine 13, silex 64.5, alumine 16, lime 1.6, and oxide of chrome 3.25. Now how can these dusts, utterly worthless in themselves, grow into hardness, combine, and form one of the most beautiful, and, next to the diamond, the most precious, of all the gems? The almighty and infinitely wise God has done this in a way only known to and comprehensible by himself.
