Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Job 36:30
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon (u) it, and covereth the (x) bottom of the sea.
(u) Upon the cloud.
(x) That men cannot come to the knowledge of the springs of it.
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon (u) it, and covereth the (x) bottom of the sea.
(u) Upon the cloud.
(x) That men cannot come to the knowledge of the springs of it.
Verse Job 36:30. _HE SPREADETH HIS LIGHT UPON IT_] Or, as Mr. _Good_ translates, "He throweth forth from it his flash." These two verses may both have an allusion to the sudden rarefaction of that pa...
BEHOLD, HE SPREADETH HIS LIGHT UPON IT - That is, upon his tabernacle or dwelling-place - the clouds. The allusion is to lightning, which flashes in a moment over the whole heavens. The image is excee...
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...
BOTTOM. roots or offspring, i.e. clouds....
Though God is enveloped in the dark cloud, He is there encircled with His light, which, though the masses of waters cover Him, manifests itself to men's eyes in the lightning that shoots from the clou...
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...
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...
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...
_BEHOLD, HE SPREADETH HIS LIGHT UPON IT, AND COVERETH THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA._ Light - lightning. IT - His tabernacle. The light, in an instant spread over the vast mass of dark clouds, forms a stri...
36:30 him, (k-7) Or 'upon it.' sea. (l-14) Or 'with the roots of the sea doth he cover himself.'...
Render, 'Behold, He spreadeth His light around HIM, and covereth it with the deeps' (lit. 'roots') 'of the sea': see on Job 26:5 and cp. Psalms 104:2; Psalms 104:3. Modern scholars generally correct t...
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 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....
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...
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...
HIS LIGHT appears to mean here the lightning which flashes forth from the cloud. AND COVERETH THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. — Literally, _it hath covered the roots of the sea: i.e.,_ it, the lightning, or H...
הֵן ־פָּרַ֣שׂ עָלָ֣יו אֹורֹ֑ו וְ שָׁרְשֵׁ֖י ה
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...
Ends. Literally, "the hinges," or poles, cardines. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "roots;" Aristotle (Meteor. ii. 1.) and Hesoid (Theog. 727,) use the same term, (Calmet) to denote the fountains which supply t...
(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...
BEHOLD, HE SPREADETH HIS LIGHT UPON IT,.... Upon his tabernacle; that is, upon the clouds, which are his tabernacle; either the light of the sun, whereby the clouds are dispersed and blotted out; an e...
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. Ver. 30. _Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it_] That is, his fair weather, clearing up the cloudy sky, as some expound i...
Job 36:30. "Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea." In the original, the roots of the sea, by which he means the extreme parts of the sea, where the clouds and the...
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...
Behold, He spreadeth his light upon it, He surrounds Himself with the heavenly veil of light in which He continually lives, AND COVERETH THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, the roots of the sea, which are drawn up...
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 BOTTOM: _ Heb._ the roots...
God covers the depths of the sea so that man on land cannot see them....
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,...
HIS LIGHT, i.e. the lightning; of which the whole context speaks, which is fitly called _God's light_, as it is called _God's lightning_, PSALMS 144:6, because God only can light it. UPON IT, i.e. upo...
Job 36:30 scatters H6566 (H8804) light H216 covers H3680 (H8765) depths H8328 sea H3220 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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:30 LIGHTNING represents God’s glory (compare Psalms 104:2). His glory COVERS (lights up) even the depths of the...
_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...
Exodus 14:22; Exodus 14:28; Exodus 15:4; Exodus 15:5; Genesis 1:9;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Light — The lightning; fitly God's light, because God only can light it. It — Upon the cloud, which is in a manner the candlestick in which God sets up this light. The sea — The lightning spreads far...