Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
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Gill's Exposition
Who knoweth not in all these,.... Or "by" or "from all these" (o) creatures; what man is there so stupid and senseless, that does not discern, or cannot learn, even from irrational creatures, the…
Barnes' Notes
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee - Perhaps this appeal to the earth may mean, as Stuhlman supposes, that the same thing is shown in the productions of the earth, as in the case of fierce…
Job's friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with…
Cambridge Bible
speak to the earth The "earth" here includes all the forms of lower life with which it teems.