--- title: "Bullinger" description: "the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . answered. See note on Job 4:1 . We now have Jehovah" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/job/38" --- **the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 . **answered.** See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) . We now have Jehovah *'* s own ministry, and the theme is Himself. Elihu *'* s ministry furnishes the text: "God is greater than man "([Job 33:12](../../../kjv/job/33/12) ). This leads up to "the end of the Lord" ([James 5:11](../../../kjv/james/5/11) ). "How should mortal man be just with God? "See [Job 4:17](../../../kjv/job/4/17) ; [Job 9:2](../../../kjv/job/9/2) ; [Job 15:14](../../../kjv/job/15/14) ; [Job 33:9](../../../kjv/job/33/9) ; [Job 34:5](../../../kjv/job/34/5) . How different from the ministry of the three friends, which, like most ministries of to-day, consists in the effort to make men "good" by persuasion. **Who is this . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **darkeneth.** Hebrew. *hashak.* See note on [Job 3:6](../../../kjv/job/3/6) . **man.** Hebrew. *geber* . App-14 . **answer thou Me** = cause Me to know. **hast understanding** = knowest. **foundations** = sockets. **fastened** = sunk. **stars sang.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* App-6 . See App-12 . **sons of God** = angels. See note on [Genesis 6:2](../../../kjv/genesis/6/2) , and the eight occurrences of the expression in O.T. See also App-23 and App-25 . **thick darkness.** Hebrew. *'araphel.* See note on [Job 3:6](../../../kjv/job/3/6) . **brake up** = assigned. **the morning.** See the Alternation below, verses: [Job 38:12-14](../../../kjv/job/38/12-14) . **the wicked** = lawless. All the ancient versions and early printed editions read "the lawless" **search** = secret. **doors** = gates. **way.** Supply Ellipsis: "Where is the way [to the place where] light", &c. **treasures** = treasuries. **against the day, &c.** . - e.g. as in [Joshua 10:10](../../../kjv/joshua/10/10) . **part** = divide up into parts: as the rays of light in a prism. **man.** Hebrew ' *ish* . App-14 . **man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 . **dew** = night mist. See note on [Psalms 133:3](../../../kjv/psalms/133/3) . **Pleiades.** Hebrew. *kimah.* See App-12 . **Orion.** Hebrew kesil. App-12 . **Mazzarotli** = the twelve signs of the Zodiac marking the path of the sun in the heavens. App-12 . Arcturus. Hebrew. *'ayish* the greater sheepfold: known to day as "the great bear". See App-12 . **ordinances** = statutes. **the** = his. **in the inward parts.** Hebrew. *tuchoth:* Occurs only here and [Psalms 51:6](../../../kjv/psalms/51/6) . 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