Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Job 37:17
When he quieteth the earth. — Or, When the earth is still.
When he quieteth the earth. — Or, When the earth is still.
Verse Job 37:17. _HOW THY GARMENTS_ ARE _WARM_] What are _warmth_ and _cold?_ How difficult this question! Is _heat_ incontestably a _substance_, and is _cold_ none? I am afraid we are in the dark on...
HOW THY GARMENTS ARE WARM - What is the reason that the garments which we wear produce warmth? This, it would seem, was one of the philosophical questions which were asked at that time, and which it w...
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 ...
Job is invited to consider God's wonders. Does he know how God lays His charge upon them, _i.e._ probably the phenomena just described by Elihu in Job 37:1? Does he understand the flashing of the ligh...
_how thy garments are warm_ Rather perhaps, THOU WHOSE GARMENTS ARE WARM, WHEN THE EARTH IS STILL BECAUSE OF THE SOUTH WIND. Job 37:15 referred to the storm cloud; Job 37:16 refer rather to the sultry...
Elihu's own imagination kindles at the thought of the wonders which he is unfolding, and he beseeches Job to observe them with a reverent awe, and learn from them the unsearchableness of Him who is th...
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...
2. Man should realize his insignificant position and fear God. (Job 37:14-24) TEXT 37:14-24 14 HEARKEN UNTO THIS, O JOB: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15 Dost thou know how...
_HOW THY GARMENTS ARE WARM, WHEN HE QUIETETH THE EARTH BY THE SOUTH WIND?_ Thy garments - i:e., how thy body grows warm, so as to affect thy garments with heat? SOUTH WIND - literally, region of th...
Render, 'When thy clothes are hot, and the earth still by reason of the south wind.' Job 37:17 refer to the sultry weather and sky of brass before the storm breaks....
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
God does all these wonderful things. No person can do such things. Even today, people cannot control the weather. So we should learn that God deserves honour. He is greater than anybody else. We mus...
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...
אֲשֶׁר ־בְּגָדֶ֥יךָ חַמִּ֑ים בְּ הַשְׁקִ֥ט אֶ֝֗רֶץ...
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...
How thy garments [are] (n) warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south [wind]? (n) Why your clothes should keep you warm when the south wind blows rather than when any other wind blows?...
Are. Hebrew, "How thy," &c. It is also beyond thy comprehension, why thou shouldst be too hot when the south winds blows (Haydock) moderately, though tempests generally proceed from the same quarter,...
(14) В¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. (15) Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? (16) Dost thou know the b...
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...
HOW THY GARMENTS [ARE] WARM, WHEN HE QUIETETH THE EARTH BY THE SOUTH [WIND]?] One should think there is no great difficulty in accounting for this, that a man's clothes should be warm, and he so hot a...
How thy garments [are] warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south [wind]? Ver. 17. _How thy garments are warm, when he, &c._] Canst thou give a reason of the extreme heat that is about the summer...
_Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?_ How God doth, as it were, weigh the clouds in balances; so that, although they are full of water, and heavy, yet they are by his power suspended in the t...
FINAL ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOB...
How thy garments are warm when He quieteth the earth by the south wind? It is a direct challenge to Job: Thou, whose clothes become hot when the land becomes sultry from the south, as the torrid heat...
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...
Did he know why his garments were hot in the sultry air that the hot wind from the south produced in the summer desert....
14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared...
How and why thy garments keep thee warm; of which as there are some natural causes, so it is certain that they are not sufficient to do it without God's blessing, as experience shows, HAGGAI 1:6. THE...
Job 37:17 garments H899 hot H2525 quiets H8252 (H8687) earth H776 south H1864 he - Job 6:17,...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 37:14 Elihu focuses on God’s majesty. He calls on Job to listen (HEAR THIS, O JOB) and consider this description in his complaint before God....
_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 38:31; Job 6:17; Luke 12:55; Psalms 147:18...
Quieteth — The air about the earth. From the south — By the sun's coming into the southern parts, which makes the air quiet and warm....