Job Chapter 38 verse 38 Holy Bible
When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?
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When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
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When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
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When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
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When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
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When the dust runs into a mass, And the clods of earth stick together?
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In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 38. - When the dust groweth into hardness. 'Aphar (עָפַר) here, as often, means "earth," or "soil," rather than "dust." When by the heat of the sun's rays the ground grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together, baked into a compact mass, then is the time when rain is most needed, and when the Almighty in his mercy commonly sends it. The consideration of inanimate nature here ends, with the result that its mysteries altogether transcend the human intellect, and render speculation on the still deeper mysteries of the moral world wholly vain and futile.
