He causeth it to come, steering the storm, causing the clouds to unload their burdens, whether for correction, namely, when a devastating storm proves a scourge, or for His land, or for mercy, when He knows it to be necessary for the earth, when He wants to dispense His blessings in a gentle rain. Thus the majesty of God, as apparent in nature, vindicates all His actions, showing that it is His privilege, His right, to deal with men as He sees fit.
Verse Job 37:13. _HE CAUSETH IT TO COME_] The _Vulgate_ translates the text thus: _Sive in una tribu, sine in terra sua, sive in quocunque loco_ _misericordiae suae eas jusserit inveniri_. "Whether i...
HE CAUSETH IT TO COME - That is, the rain, or the storm. It is entirely under the hand of God, like the lightning Job 36:30, and designed to accomplish his purposes of mercy and of justice. WHETHER FO...
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...
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...
The wonderful movements of the clouds directed by the guidance of God, and fulfilling His several behests. These verses read, 11. Also he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture, He spreadeth his ligh...
This is the natural rendering of the Heb. If right the words "correction" (rod, ch. Job 21:9) and "mercy" must refer to God's purposes in regard to _men_, while the words "for his earth" refer more to...
HE CAUSETH IT TO COME— See chap. Job 38:23. It seems to me not improbable, says Bp. Sherlock, that these reflections arose from the methods made use of by Providence (not worn out of memory in the tim...
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,...
_ALSO BY WATERING HE WEARIETH THE THICK CLOUD: HE SCATTERETH HIS BRIGHT CLOUD:_ How the thunder-clouds are dispersed, or else employed by God either for correction or mercy. BY WATERING - by loadin...
Probably the first line should run, 'Whether it be for correction for his land.' The word translated 'or' has been repeated by mistake. 14-24. A series of questions to Job, intended, to produce submi...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
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...
אִם ־לְ שֵׁ֥בֶט אִם ־לְ אַרְצֹ֑ו אִם
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...
He causeth it to come, whether for (k) correction, or for his land, or for mercy. (k) Rain, cold, heat, tempests and such like are sent from God, either to punish man, or to profit the earth, or to d...
_Tribe. Hebrew also, "for correction." (Haydock) (Amos iv. 7.) --- Land of promise, Psalm lxvii. 10._...
(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...
HE CAUSETH IT TO COME,.... The cloud, and rain by it; WHETHER FOR CORRECTION; for the reproof and chastisement of men for their sins, by suffering such quantities to fall as wash away, or corrupt and...
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy. Ver. 13. _He causeth it to come, whether for correction_] Heb. For a rod, εις παιδειαν (Sept.). God hath his rods stickin...
_Whether for correction_ Hebrew, אם לשׁבשׂ, _im leshebet, whether for a rod_, to scourge or correct men by immoderate showers. The word, however, also means, _a tribe_, for a certain portion of land,...
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...
CORRECTION: _ Heb._ a rod...
Thus God can use nature for His purposes, either of judgment or mercy. This infers that God can also use pain and suffering for the same purposes....
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...
HE CAUSETH IT TO COME, Heb. _he maketh it_ (to wit, the cloud, or clouds, and the rain which is in it) _to find_, to wit, a path, or to find out the persons or place to which God intends either good o...
Job 37:13 come H4672 (H8686) correction H7626 land H776 mercy H2617 whether - Job 37:6,...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 37:13 God’s providential purposes may relate to people (CORRECTION or LOVE) or may be FOR HIS LAND (see also...
_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...
1 Kings 18:45; 1 Samuel 12:18; 1 Samuel 12:19; 2 Samuel 21:10;...
Correction — To scourge or correct men by immoderate showers. Earth — The whole earth, which is said to be the Lord's, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 50:12, and so this may denote a general judgment by excessive...