Behold, even to the moon,.... If all things that are glorious and illustrious in the lower world, and which are between that and the region of the moon, are beheld; or all from the seat of the Divine Majesty, down to that glorious luminary, are viewed, they lose all their lustre and brightness, when compared with the Divine Being;and it, even that itselfshineth not; it is darkened, confounded, and ashamed; it hides its beautiful face, and draws in its borrowed and useful light, at the approach of him, who is light itself, and in whom is no darkness at all: or it tabernacles not ; has no tabernacle to abide in, as is said of the sun, Ps 19:4; or does not expand and spread its light, as a tent or tabernacle is spread; it does not diffuse, but contracts it.
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Job 25:5
Job 25:5
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