Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 37:8
Then the beasts go into dens, creeping into their coverts at the approach of winter or of the rainy season, and remain in their places, hibernating in their lairs while the fields are desolate.
Then the beasts go into dens, creeping into their coverts at the approach of winter or of the rainy season, and remain in their places, hibernating in their lairs while the fields are desolate.
THEN THE BEASTS GO INTO DENS - In the winter. This fact appears to have been early observed, that in the season of cold the wild animals withdrew into caves, and that many of them became torpid. This...
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...
PLACES. lurking-places, or lairs....
_their places_ Their coverts or lairs. The reference is to the hibernation of the animals, or to their retreat into their coverts for shelter from the snow and rains....
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...
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,...
_THEN THE BEASTS GO INTO DENS, AND REMAIN IN THEIR PLACES._ Remain - rest in their lairs, It is beautifully ordered that, during the cold, when they could not obtain food, many lie torpid-a state whe...
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...
THEN THE BEASTS GO INTO DENS. — And not man only, but the beasts likewise, have to take refuge in their dens and coverts....
וַ תָּבֹ֣א חַיָּ֣ה בְמֹו ־אָ֑רֶב וּ בִ
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...
_Den. Foreseeing the tempest and retreating for shelter._...
(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...
THEN THE BEASTS GO INTO DENS,.... When snow and rains are on the earth in great abundance, then the wild beasts of the field, not being able to prowl about, betake themselves to dens; where they lie i...
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. Ver. 8. _Then the beasts go into dens_] In rainy and snowy weather, the very wild beasts (as lively and lusty as they are, whence also they h...
_He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth_ By his powerful will the snow is formed in the air, and falls upon the earth where and when he sees fit. _And the great rain of his strength_ Those storms...
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...
THEN, in great rains or deep snows, the beasts go into dens for shelter and comfort....
Job 37:8 beasts H2416 go H935 (H8799) into H1119 dens H695 remain H7931 (H8799) lairs H4585...
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...
Psalms 104:22...