Amsal_30:4
Siapakah yang telah menetapkan segala ujung bumi?
"Segala ujung bumi" ("All the ends of the earth") sama seperti pada lima bagian lain di Alkitab, misalnya, adalah tempat-tempat yang paling jauh dan terpencil di bumi. Penentuan batas-batas terjauh di bumi ini sama dengan penetapan dan pembentukan batasan bentangan daratan di bumi, penentuan kompas bumi dan pembentukan bagian-bagian tanahnya. כּי תדע merupakan suatu simponi dengan, bandingkan. Pertanyaan yang diutarakan di sini, sama seperti dalam kitab Ayub ketika Allah mengingatkan Ayub akan kelemahan dan ketidaktahuan manusia. <!-- Namun di sini ada dua kemungkinan nilai penting dari keempat pertanyaan tersebut; baik menuntut jawaban: "Tidak seorangpun, kecuali Sosok yang melebihi seluruh ciptaan, sehingga kemudian pertanyaan מה־שּׁמו [siapa namanya?] merujuk kepada nama Sosok ini; atau pertanyaan ini terutama dimaksudkan untuk manusia: Manusia apa yang mempunyai kemampuan ini? - jika ada, sebutkan namanya! Thus casually Aben Ezra explains, and also Rashi, Arama, and others, but without holding fast to this in its purity; for in the interpretation of the question, "Who hath ascended?" the reference to Moses is mixed up with it, after the Midrash and Sohar (Parasha, ויקהל, to Exo 35:1), to pass by other obscurities and difficulties introduced. Among the moderns, this explanation, according to which all aims at the answer, "there is no man to whom this appertains," has no exponent worth naming. And, indeed, as favourable as is the quis ascendit in coelos ac rursus descendit, so unfavourable is the quis constituit omnes terminos terrae, for this question appears not as implying that it asks after the man who has accomplished this; but the thought, according to all appearance, underlies it, that such an one must be a being without an equal, after whose name inquiry is made. One will then have to judge עלה and וירד after Gen 28:12; the ascending and descending are compared to our German "auf und neider" up and down, for which we do not use the phrase "nieder und auf," and is the expression of free, expanded, unrestrained presence in both regions; perhaps, since וירד is historical, as Psa 18:10, the speaker has the traditional origin of the creation in mind, according to which the earth arose into being earlier than the starry heavens above. Thus the four questions refer (as e.g., also Isa 40:12) to Him who has done and who does all that, to Him who is not Himself to be comprehended as His works are, and as He shows Himself in the greatness and wonderfulness of these, must be exalted above them all, and mysterious. If the inhabitant of the earth looks up to the blue heavens streaming in the golden sunlight, or sown with the stars of night; if he considers the interchange of the seasons, and feels the sudden rising of the wind; if he sees the upper waters clothed in fleecy clouds, and yet held fast within them floating over him; if he lets his eye sweep the horizon all around him to the ends of the earth, built up upon nothing in the open world-space (Job 26:7): the conclusion comes to him that he has before him in the whole the work of an everywhere present Being, of an all-wise omnipotent Worker - it is the Being whom he has just named as אל, the absolute Power, and as the קדשׁים, exalted above all created beings, with their troubles and limitations; but this knowledge gained vi causalitatis, vi eminentiae, and vi negationis, does not satisfy yet his spirit, and does not bring him so near to this Being as is to him a personal necessity, so that if he can in some measure answer the fourfold מי, yet there always presses upon him the question מה־שׁמו, what is his name, i.e., the name which dissolves the secret of this Being above all beings, and unfolds the mystery of the wonder above all wonders. That this Being must be a person the fourfold מי presupposes; but the question, "What is his name?" expresses the longing to know the name of this supernatural personality, not any kind of name which is given to him by men, but the name which covers him, which is the appropriate personal immediate expression of his being. -->