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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Job 36:33

The noise thereof showeth concerning it, His alarm-cry, the noise of His thunder, announces Him, as He goes forward in His strength, the cattle also concerning the vapor, even the dumb beasts announce and indicate in their actions that He is on the march, for they instinctively feel the power of the elements as these are unloosed in a great storm. Thus is the supreme power and wisdom of the Creator made manifest and God Himself vindicated in all His actions.

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See also Job 36:33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 36:33. _THE NOISE THEREOF SHOWETH CONCERNING IT, THE CATTLE_ _ALSO CONCERNING THE VAPOUR._] I think this translation very unhappy. I shall give each hemistich in the original: - יגיד עליו ר...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE NOISE THEREOF SHOWETH CONCERNING IT - The word “noise” here has been inserted by our translators as a version of the Hebrew word (רעו _rê‛ô_), and if the translators attached any idea to the lan...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SHEWETH. announceth....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The verses read, 32. He covereth over his hands with light, And giveth it commandment against the adversary; 33. His thundering telleth concerning him; Unto the cattle, even concerning him that co...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the cattle also_ The A. V. makes "cattle" subject they also tell of God; in which case the reference would be to their presentiments of a coming storm. The context, however, describes a storm actuall...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THE NOISE THEREOF SHEWETH CONCERNING IT, THE CATTLE ALSO CONCERNING THE VAPOUR._ Noise - `He revealeth it (literally, announceth concerning it) to His friend (antithesis to adversary, Job 36:32: so...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The present text is difficult. The vowel-points should probably be somewhat altered, and the v. should run, 'The noise thereof telleth concerning Him as one that kindles His wrath against wickedness.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • 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 36 ELIHU TEACHES ABOUT GOD...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE NOISE THEREOF SHEWETH CONCERNING IT. — This verse is extremely difficult, and the sense very uncertain. We may translate the first clause, “The noise thereof (_i.e._, the crash of the thunder) dec...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    יַגִּ֣יד עָלָ֣יו רֵעֹ֑ו מִ֝קְנֶ֗ה אַ֣ף עַל ־ע

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (a) The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. (a) The cold vapour shows him: that is, the cloud of the hot exhalation, which being taken in the cold cloud mounts...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _To it. The tabernacle of God is designed for his friends. Hebrew is very obscure. "Thunder announces the rain, and the very animals know it;" (Virgil describes their signs, Geor. i.) or "His thunder...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS READER, let our improvement, from the perusal of this chapter, be to remark, that the glory of GOD is the great end of man; and by whatever method or way that glory can be exalted, the fai...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THE NOISE THEREOF SHOWETH CONCERNING IT,.... The rain, that it is coming; it is a presage and prognostic of it, namely, the noise of the clouds in the air, the sound of abundance of rain there; or the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour. Ver. 33. _The noise thereof sheweth concerning it_] The hurrying noise made in the air before a shower of rain foreshow...

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

    _For by them he judgeth the people_ By thunder and lightning, and rain from the clouds, he executes his judgments against ungodly people. _He giveth meat_ By the same clouds by which he punisheth wick...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THE VAPOUR: _ Heb._ that which goeth up...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Thunder, the noise associated with lightning announces the fact that there is. God, and even cattle are aware of an approaching storm and are stirred by it....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE NOISE THEREOF, to wit. of or within the black or thick cloud, spoken of JOB 36:32. Or, _his_, i.e. God s, _noise_, to wit, the thunder, which is called _God's voice_, PSALMS 29:4,5. SHOWETH CONCER...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 36:33 thunder H7452 declares H5046 (H8686) cattle H4735 rising H5927 (H8802) storm noise - Job 36:2

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 18:41; 2 Samuel 22:14; Jeremiah 14:4; Job 36:27; Job 36:29;

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The noise — The thunder gives notice of the approaching rain. Also — And as the thunder, so also the cattle sheweth, concerning the vapour, concerning the coming of the rain, by a strange instinct, se...

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