Job 38:8

"when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

Key Reflection

This verse suggests a heavenly celebration when creation was established, with angels and divine beings rejoicing at the glory of God's work. It highlights the cosmic significance of creation and the joyful response it elicited from the spiritual realm.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Or who shut up the sea with doors -This refers also to the act of the creation, and to the fact that God fixed limits to the raging of the ocean. The word “doors” is used here rather to denote gates, such as are made to shut up water in a dam. The Hebrew word properly refers, in the dual form which is used hereדלתיםdelethiym), to “double doors,” or to folding doors, and is also applied to the gates of a city;Deuteronomy 3:5;1 Samuel 23:7;Isaiah 45:1. The idea is, that the floods were bursting forth from the abyss or the center of the earth, and were checked by placing gates or doors which restrained them.

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