The spreading of the clouds — i.e., how the clouds are spread over the heavens, and heaped up one upon the other like mountains in the skies when the storm gathers.
Or the noise of His tabernacle? — Or the thunderings of His pavilion (Psalms 18:12).
Verse Job 36:29. _CAN_ ANY _UNDERSTAND THE SPREADINGS OF THE CLOUDS_] Though the _vapour_ appear to be fortuitously raised, and subject, when suspended in the atmosphere, to innumerable _accidents_,...
ALSO, CAN ANY UNDERSTAND THE SPREADINGS OF THE CLOUDS? - The out spreading - the manner in which they expand themselves over us. The idea is, that the manner in which the clouds seem to “spread out,”...
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...
CAN ANY... ? Figure of speech _Er_ otesis. App-6. SPREADINGS. suspensions, or floatings. TABERNACLE. booth. Hebrew. _sukkah._...
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 "spreadings" of the clouds refers probably to the accumulation and diffusion of the storm clouds over the heavens; and the second clause to the loud thundering within the dark cloud, where God is...
Job 36:30 needs some modification 29. Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, And the crashings of his pavilion? 30. Behold, he spreadeth his light around him, And covereth him over...
ALSO, CAN ANY UNDERSTAND, &C.— _How much more when he manifesteth the burstings of the clouds; the crash of the thunder of his pavilion!_ Job 36:30. _See his lightning flasheth around him! he turneth...
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...
_ALSO CAN ANY UNDERSTAND THE SPREADINGS OF THE CLOUDS, OR THE NOISE OF HIS TABERNACLE?_ Spreadings ... - the canopy of thick clouds which covers the heavens in a storm (Psalms 105:39). THE NOISE (CR...
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...
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...
אַ֣ף אִם ־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי ־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁאֹ֗ות...
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...
Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his (t) tabernacle? (t) Meaning, of the clouds, which he calls the tabernacle of God....
_If. Hebrew, "Also can any understand the spreading out of the clouds, the elevation or noise of his pavilion?" (Haydock) --- What could be more magnificent that the throne of God! (Calmet)_...
(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...
ALSO CAN [ANY] UNDERSTAND THE SPREADINGS OF THE CLOUDS,.... Or "of a cloud" l, a thick cloud, a single one; which sometimes at the beginning is very small, about the size of a man's hand, 1 Kings 18:...
Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle? Ver. 29. _Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds_] That is, the skill that God showeth in spread...
Job 36:29, 30. Here the clouds are represented as being spread out over the concave of the heavens as the covering of a tabernacle, which come down as curtains and cover the utmost edge of the sea, wh...
_Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds?_ Hebrew, _of a cloud:_ whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, suddenly spreads over the whole heavens: how the cloud...
Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, how they expand over the vault of heaven, OR THE NOISE OF HIS TABERNACLE, the loud crashing of the great tent of the sky, when the thunderbolts s...
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....
"CAN ANYONE UNDERSTAND THE SPREADING OF THE CLOUDS?" "Who understands, he asks, how God diffuses the clouds, or how He causes the thunder?" _(Jackson p. 74)._ The expression in Job 36:29 "His pavilion...
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,...
OF THE CLOUDS; or rather, _of a cloud_, as it is in the Hebrew; whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, doth suddenly spread over the whole heavens: how the clouds com...
Job 36:29 understand H995 (H8799) spreading H4666 clouds H5645 thunder H8663 canopy H5521 the spreadings -...
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...
_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...
1 Kings 18:44; 1 Kings 18:45; Habakkuk 3:10; Job 37:16; Job 37:2;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Understand — Whence it comes to pass, that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, suddenly spreads over the whole heavens: how the clouds come to be suddenly gathered, and so condensed as to brin...