Job 38:22

"Surely you know, for you were born then, and the number of your days is great!"

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that the speaker, likely God, is addressing someone who has questioned His wisdom or actions. By stating that they already possess knowledge gained from a long life, it implies that true understanding comes with experience and existence itself, highlighting the divine nature of such insight.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Hast thou entered into the treasures of snow? -Snow is here represented as something which is laid up like treasure, and kept in reserve for use when God shall require it. Silver and gold were thus laid up for occasions when they would be wanted, and the figurative sentiment here is, that snow and hail were thus preserved for the use to which the Almighty might devote them, or for those great occasions when it would be proper to bring them forth to execute his purposes. Of course, it was to be expected that God would speak in the language which people commonly used when speaking of his works, and would not go into a philosophical or scientific explanation of the phenomena of nature.

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