Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Job 36:27
For he maketh small, &c.— Who causeth the exhalations of the waters to mount on high, which form the rain in his clouds, (Job 36:28.) when the heavens pour down.
For he maketh small, &c.— Who causeth the exhalations of the waters to mount on high, which form the rain in his clouds, (Job 36:28.) when the heavens pour down.
Verse Job 36:27. _HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER_] This appears simply to refer to _evaporation_, and perhaps it would be better to translate יגרע _yegara_, "he exhales;" detaches the smallest pa...
FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER - Elihu now appeals, as he proposed to do, to the works of God, and begins with what appeared so remarkable and inexplicable, the wisdom of God in the rain and t...
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 ...
God draws up the water-drops and lets them fall in rain. Who can understand the distribution of the clouds, the thunders which fill the cloud where He dwells? (_cf._ Psalms 18:11). He is surrounded wi...
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 wonder of the rain-drops. 27. For he maketh small the rain-drops; They distil the rain of his vapour; 28. Which the clouds pour down, And drop upon the multitude of mankind. 27. _he maketh sma...
3. God knows what he is doing and his work should be magnified. (Job 36:22-33) TEXT 36:22-33 22 BEHOLD, GOD DOETH LOFTILY IN HIS POWER: Who is a teacher like onto him? 23 Who hath enjoined him his...
_FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER: THEY POUR DOWN RAIN ACCORDING TO THE VAPOUR THEREOF:_ The marvelous formation of rain (so Job 5:9; Job 37:13). MAKETH SMALL - rather, 'He draweth (up) to Him...
36:27 formeth, (h-18) Lit 'according to his vapour.'...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONTINUED) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their afflictions....
THE WORK BEGUN. THE LIBERALITY OF THE PEOPLE Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:6; Ezra 2:68; Nehemiah 7:70. 8-38. The construction of the Tabernacle: see...
The formation of rain. RV 'He draweth up the drops of water which distil in rain from his vapour.' 29B. RV 'The thunderings of his pavilion'; i.e. of the clouds....
In Job 26:14, Job said that man’s experience of God was like a whisper. But God’s greatness was like the thunder. (Thunder is the loud noise that follows lightning.) But Job and his friends would soon...
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 36 ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...
THE DROPS OF WATER. — The origin and first beginnings of the tempest are described. “He maketh small,” or draweth up by exhalation. “They pour down rain,” or “they distil in rain from His vapour,” or...
כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי ־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר...
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...
HE DESPISETH NOT ANY Job 36:1 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee before His throne forever. He will...
After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address. He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was abou...
For he maketh small the drops of water: they (s) pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: (s) That is, the rain comes from those drops of water which he keeps in the clouds....
_Floods. God causes the water on the earth to evaporate, (Calmet) to form the clouds, (Haydock) which afterwards fall in torrents. (Menochius) --- Theodotion, "the drops of rain are numbered by him,...
(22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men be...
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...
FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF RAIN,.... Elihu proceeds to give instances and proofs of the greatness of God, and begins with rain, as Eliphaz does, Job 5:9; a common phenomenon, what is very freque...
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Ver. 27. _For he maketh small the drops of water_] Here Elihu beginneth to instance the greatness of God i...
Job 36:27, to end of the next chapter. Elihu concludes his discourse with observations and improvements of God's wondrous works in the clouds - rain, lightning, and thunder. It appears to me probable...
_For he maketh small_, &c. Having affirmed that God's works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now proves it from the most common works of nature and providence. And hence he leaves it to Job...
For He maketh small the drops of water, drawing them up from the earth in the form of vapor; THEY POUR DOWN RAIN ACCORDING TO THE VAPOR THEREOF, the mist which He spreads out in the form of clouds fur...
THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar" (v....
The water-vapor cycle is one example of God's majesty, for by His laws God draws up moisture which distills or condenses and forms rain for man in abundance (see Ecc. Job 1:7)....
24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them,...
Having affirmed that God's works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now enters upon the proof of it; and he proveth it from the most common and visible works of nature and providence, which i...
Job 36:27 draws H1639 (H8762) drops H5198 water H4325 distill H2212 (H8799) rain H4306 mist H108 he -...
CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's justice defended. CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job. CONCLUSION: God does all things well. Though it may seem sometimes that we are neglected and forgotten and...
Job 36:3. _I will fetch my knowledge from afar;_ from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the perfect...
_God is great, and we know Him not._ THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD These words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is inaccessibl...
_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH_ No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1.—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in reference t...
EXPOSITION JOB 36:1 The two chapters, Job 36:1; Job 37:1, form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully as they are, in the middle of a descriptio...
Elihu continued (Job 36:1), He's really taking him on. Just allow me a little more, and I'm going to show you what I have to speak on God's behalf. I'm going to fetch my knowledge from far off, I'm g...
Genesis 2:5; Genesis 2:6; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 14:22; Job 36:33;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
For — Having affirmed that God's works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now proves it from the most common works of nature and providence. And hence he leaves it to Job to consider how much...