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Job 38:22

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Treasures - storehouses, from which God draws forth snow and hail. Snow is vapour congealed in the air, before it is collected in drops large enough to form hail. Its shape is that of a crystal in endless variety of beautiful figures. Hail is formed by rain falling through cold air.

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See also Job 38:22 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 38:22. _THE TREASURES OF THE SNOW_] The places where _snow_ is formed, and the cause of that formation. See on Job 37:6. _TREASURES OF THE HAIL_] It is more easy to account for the formati...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE TREASURES OF SNOW? - Snow is here represented as something which is laid up like treasure, and kept in reserve for use when God shall require it. Silver and gold were thus l...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM CHAPTER 38:1-38 _ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_ 2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4) Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WONDERS OF THE INANIMATE CREATION. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (contr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TREASURES. treasuries....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Snow and hail....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the treasures_ That is, the treasuries, the magazines. Snow and hail are represented as having been created and laid up in great storehouses in the heavens or above them, from whence God draws them f...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The wonders of the heavens....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _THE SHATTERING OF SILENCE_ VI. THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE PENITENCE OF JOB (Job 38:1, Job 42:6) A. INTEGRITY, CERTAINTY, AND KNOWLEDGE (Job 38:1, Job 40:2) 1.

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    TREASURES] RV 'treasuries'; storehouses. 22, 23. Cp. passages such as Joshua 10:11; Psalms 18, where God is represented as intervening in the affairs of men through the elements of nature. 24B. RV '...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (JOB 38:39) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to force fro...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 38 GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    God begins to discuss a new subject in these verses. That subject is war. Job was not sure that God would ever act as judge (Job 24:1). But later, Job remembered that every evil person will die (Job...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ֭ בָאתָ אֶל ־אֹצְרֹ֣ות שָׁ֑לֶג וְ אֹצְרֹ֖ות

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues a voice....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHAT MAN CANNOT DO Job 38:19 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4; the sea, Job 38:8; light,...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challen...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? ...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE TREASURES OF THE SNOW? OR HAST THOU SEEN THE TREASURES OF THE HAIL?] The vapours raised, and clouds formed in the atmosphere, which is the storehouse of those meteors; and m...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,_ Ver. 22. _Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?_] _i.e._ Into the clouds, where these mete...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Hast thou entered into the treasures of snow?_ Dost thou know where I have laid up those vast quantities of snow and hail which I draw forth when I see fit? Dost thou know the causes of them, and the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Did Job have access to the immense storehouses from which it came in such immeasurable quantities? OR HAST THOU SEEN THE TREASURES OF THE HAIL,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    GOD'S MAJESTY IN THE FORCES OF NATUREV. 16. HAST THOU ENTERED INTO THE SPRINGS OF THE SEA, the great fountains of the deep, Genesis 7, 11? OR HAST THOU WALKED IN THE SEARCH OF THE DEPTH, to examine th...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the whi...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    God now has various questions about the weather, which man is still unable to control or influence much to this day. Yes, man tries to "seed" the clouds, but even this does not seem to be very success...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-24 The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Dost thou know where I have laid up those vast quantities of snow and hail which I draw forth when I see fit? Dost thou know the causes of them, and the way to produce them? But if thou art unacquaint...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 38:22 entered H935 (H8804) treasury H214 snow H7950 seen H7200 (H8799) treasury H214 hail H1259

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 38:22 Snow is my text, written in letters of white. "Hast thou" have you, boy or girl "entered into the treasures of the snow?" How pure it is; how soft it is; how strong it is; how silent it is;...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who try to call God to account, will be called to account. Seeking to establish one's own character and darkening the counse...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 38:1. _The whirlwind._ Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in Psal...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?_ THE TREASURES OF THE SNOW I. The beauty of these “treasures.” The manifold pleasing forms shaped by the different objects on which it falls; the br...

  • The children's great texts of the Bible by James Hastings

    THE TREASURES OF THE SNOW Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow? Job 38:22. Today I want you to come with me into a wonderful treasure-house and we shall walk round and look at the treasures....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:12 The Lord reminds Job that he cannot see fully what the Lord is doing about justice and judgment (see vv. Job 38:13,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:22 The reference to STOREHOUSES that are reserved for THE TIME OF TROUBLE is another reminder to Job that the Lord’s rule over the earth takes into account things that are not known...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB_ Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thunders...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY. EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Job 37:6; Job 6:16; Psalms 135:7; Psalms 33:7...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Treasures — Dost thou know where I have laid up those vast quantities of snow and hail which I draw forth when I see fit?...

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