...Job xxiii. 15. Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judgeth those who are high ? — Jobxxi. 22. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,...nothing; he bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, &c. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end . Th e pillars...

...coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. — Psalm civ. 1 — 7. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,...upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick cloud, and the cloud is not rent under them. He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding...

...his thunder they hasted away.'|| ' He hath stretched out the heavens over the chans, and hath hung the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in...thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. His power raiseth the waves of the sea, and his wisdom restraineth their fury.«! He raiseth the vapours,...

...whiteness through the middle heavens, hast thou dwelt on the wonders of creation and told of Him who stretc.heth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing; who by his Spirit garnisheth the heavens, whose hand hath formed the crooked serpent who bringeth forth...

...to keep a just poise, without a corresponding southern continent — and it does so ! " He stretches out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." — Job, xxvi. 7If the arduous but exact researches of this extraordinary man have not discovered a...

...of the supreme Being, the centre of the soul's felicitv and, ' God over all, blessed for evermore I" He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,...thick clouds, and the cloud is not rent under them. He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. By his Spirit he...

...roundness of the world : " Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terrain super nihilum" (who stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing); wherein the pensileness of the earth, the pole of the north, and the finiteness or convexity of heaven...

...hover like the lightest down ? These are the 'wondrous works of Him, who is perfect in knowledge.'f ' He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud,' though nothing is more loose and fluid, becomes, by his almighty order, strong and tenacious as casks...

...they know of what is ever before them, of even the visible works of his hands ? How " lie sprcadeth the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing ? " How he unites all the parts of tin's vast machine by a secret chain, which cannot be broken ? So...

...form.'' In the Book of Job, chap. xxvi. verse 7, there is what bears strongly to the above imports. " He stretcheth out the North over the empty place, and hangeth the Earth upon nothing." We read in Jeremiah, 4th chap, and 23d verse, "I beheld the Earth, and lo, it was without form, and...