Job 37:20
What meaning of the job 37:20 in the Bible?
What does Job 37:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up."
What does Job 37:20 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up."
Verse Job 37:20. _SHALL IT BE TOLD HIM THAT I SPEAK?_] Shall I dare to whisper even before God? And suppose any one were to _accuse_ me before him for what I have spoken of him, though that has been w...
SHALL IT BE TOLD HIM THAT I SPEAK? - Still the language of profound awe and reverence, as if he would not have it even intimated to God that he had presumed to say anything in regard to him, or with a...
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 37:17) Job 36:22....
How can he, whose mind is dark, address God? Shall I invite Him to converse and court destruction? (Job 37:19 f.). In Job 37:21 follow _mg._ And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in t...
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...
_SHALL IT BE TOLD HIM THAT I SPEAK? IF A MAN SPEAK, SURELY HE SHALL BE SWALLOWED UP._ What I, a mortal, say against God's dealings is not worthy of being told HIM. In opposition to Job's wish to "spe...
37:20 shall (e-17) 'If one must speak, he shall.'...
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
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...
BE SWALLOWED UP. — The sense will vary, according as we understand this of God or of the sun. In the first case, it is a simple expression of awe at God’s majesty: “Shall it be told Him that I would s...
הַֽ יְסֻפַּר ־לֹ֖ו כִּ֣י אֲדַבֵּ֑ר אִֽם ־אָ֥מַר אִ֝֗ישׁ כִּ֣י יְבֻלָּֽע׃...
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 voic...
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...
Shall it be (q) told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. (q) Has God need that any should tell him when man murmurs against him?...
_He shall be swallowed up. All that man can say, when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, an das it were swallowed up in so immense an o...
(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...
SHALL IT BE TOLD HIM THAT I SPEAK?.... And what I speak? there is no need of it, since he is omniscient, and knows every word that is spoken by men; or is anything I have said concerning him, his ways...
Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up. Ver. 20. _Shall it be told him that I speak?_] _An in acta referetur ei, si loquar?_ Shall it be recorded before hi...
_Shall it be told him that I speak?_ Does he need to be informed of any thing? Is any thing that I have said of him worth his hearing? Will any one report it to him? Will any man dare to approach him?...
FINAL ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOB...
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 whol...
To insist on speaking with God as Job had claimed (Job 10:2; Job 13:3), would only result in being swallowed up. Such. supposed self-defense that Job wanted would only result in his self-destruction....
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 t...
THAT I SPEAK, Heb. _that I will speak_. Shall I send, or who dare carry, a challenge from me to God, or a message that I am ready and desirous to debate with him concerning his proceedings? This indee...
Job 37:20 told H5608 (H8792) speak H1696 (H8762) man H376 speak H559 (H8804) up H1104 (H8792) Shall it - Psalms 139:4; Matthew 12:36-37 surely - Job 6:3, Job 11:7-8...
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...
_Teach us what we shall say unto Him._ MAN AND GOD I. Suggestions concerning man. 1. The sublimest act, speaking to God. “Teach us what we shall say unto Him; for we cannot order our speech by reas...
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. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsBy...
_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 11:7; Job 11:8; Job 6:3; Matthew 12:36; Matthew 12:37; Psalms 139:4...
Shall — I send a challenge to God, or a message that I am ready to debate with him concerning his proceedings? Speak — If a man should be so bold to enter the lists with God. Swallowed up — With the s...