Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 37:10
By the breath of God frost is given, the cold blast, sent from God, sweeps over the face of the water and forms ice; and the breadth of the waters is straitened, arrested, bound in the icy fetters of winter.
By the breath of God frost is given, the cold blast, sent from God, sweeps over the face of the water and forms ice; and the breadth of the waters is straitened, arrested, bound in the icy fetters of winter.
Verse Job 37:10. _BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN_] The _freezing_ of water, though it is generally allowed to be the effect of _cold_, and has been carefully examined by the most eminent philoso...
BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN - Not by the violent north wind, or by the whirlwind of the south, but God seems to “breathe” in a gentle manner, and the earth is covered with hoary frost. It appe...
CHAPTER S 36:22--37:24 _ 1. God's power and presence in nature (Job 36:22)_ 2. The thunderstorm (Job 37:1) 3. The snow and the rain (Job 37:6) 4. Elihu's concluding remarks ...
Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes (Job 37:3) then the thunder follows (Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place while Elih...
BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah._ App-16....
Another wonder of God's power, snow and frost....
Job 36:26-33. The greatness and unsearchableness of God, seen in His marvellous operations in the skies; and exhortation to Job to allow these wonders duly to impress him, and to bow beneath the great...
Frost and ice....
_By the breath of God frost_ Rather, ICE. The wind is the breath of God as the thunder is His voice. This cold breath gives ice....
BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN— _By the breath of God he giveth ice, and he swelleth the waters by the thaw:_ Job 37:11. _Fair weather also disperseth the cloud; his sun scattereth the cloud abro...
F. THE CREATOR AND THE CREATION (Job 37:1-24) 1. The marvelous activity of God in nature (Job 37:1-13) TEXT 37:1-13 37 Yea, at this my heart trembleth, And is moved oat of its place. 2 Hear, oh,...
_BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN: AND THE BREADTH OF THE WATERS IS STRAITENED._ Frost - rather, ice. THE BREATH OF GOD - poetically for the ice-producing north wind. STRAITENED - physically ac...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
STRAITENED] RM 'congealed.'...
For many Chapter s, Job and his friends had talked about God. Some things that they said were correct. But other things were wrong. Job and his friends were talking about things that they did not know...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 37 ELIHU INTRODUCES GOD TO...
THE BREADTH OF THE WATERS IS STRAITENED. — Firm, like a molten mass....
מִ נִּשְׁמַת ־אֵ֥ל יִתֶּן ־קָ֑רַח וְ רֹ֖חַב
XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1; Job 36:1; Job 37:1 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself...
THE LIGHT IN THE CLOUDS Job 37:1 As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened to the sound of God's voice...
The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings o...
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters (g) is straitened. (g) That is, frozen up and dried....
_Abundantly. He cause it to freeze or rain at pleasure. (Haydock) (Psalm cxlvii. 17.) (Menochius)_...
(8) Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. (9) Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (10) By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the wat...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 32 THROUGH 37. But these spiritual affections of Job did not prevent his turning this consciousness of integrity into a robe of self-righteousness which hid G...
BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN,.... By the word of God, as the Targum; at his command it is, at his word it comes, and at his word it goes, Psalms 147:15; or by his will, as Ben Gersom interprets...
By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Ver. 10. _By the breath of God frost is given_] Frost is the excess of cold by the blowing of the coldest winds, whic...
_Out of the south_ Hebrew, מן החרד, _min ha-chered:_ εκ ταμειων : _de promptuariis, out of the store-houses_, LXX.; _ab interioribus, from the inner chambers_, Vulgate Latin. The same with _the chambe...
MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM (vv.1-5) As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His lightning spreads over the whole...
1-13 The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of...
BY THE BREATH OF GOD, i.e. by the word of God, as this very phrase is explained, PSALMS 33:6; by his will or appointment, to which as the principal cause all these works are ascribed. THE BREADTH OF T...
Job 37:10 breath H5397 God H410 ice H7140 given H5414 (H8799) broad H7341 waters H4325 frozen H4164...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's majesty. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: We must all own that our finite understandings cannot comprehend the infinite perfections of God, but w...
Job 37:5. _God thundereth marvellously with his voice._ See on Psalms 29. This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime description of a storm. Job 37:22. The golden splendour _co...
_Hear attentively the noise of His voice._ WHAT IS ELIHU’S MESSAGE What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as well as...
_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED_ Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the Almighty was about to speak, and...
EXPOSITION JOB 37:1 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1 and Job 37:1.—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. From its effect on cattl...
At this also my heart trembled, and is moved out of his place. Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightni...
Job 38:29; Job 38:30; Psalms 147:16; Psalms 78:47...
The waters — The waters which had freely spread themselves before, are congealed and bound up in crystal fetters....