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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 37:15

Them — The things before mentioned, the clouds, rain, snow, and other meteors. Did God acquaint thee with his counsels in the producing and ordering of them? His cloud — Probably the rainbow, seated in a cloud, which may well be called God's cloud, because therein God puts his bow, Genesis 9:13.

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See also Job 37:15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 37:15. _DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM_] Dost thou know the laws by which they are governed; and the causes which produce such and such phenomena? _AND CAUSED THE LIGHT OF HIS CLOUD...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM? - That is, the winds, the clouds, the cold, the snow, the sky, etc. The question refers to the manner in which God arranges and governs them, rather than to the...

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _when God disposed them_ Rather, HOW GOD LAYETH HIS COMMAND UPON THEM, AND CAUSETH, &c.?...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • 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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM— _Dost thou know when God fixed his curb upon them, and caused,_ &c.? See Schultens and Heath. This passage is by Grotius, and many other learned commentators, su...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM, AND CAUSED THE LIGHT OF HIS CLOUD TO SHINE?_ WHEN - rather, how. DISPOSED THEM - lays His charge on х_ BªSUWM_ (H7760) _ `AL_ (H5921)] these wonders (Job 37:1...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    37:15 lightning (d-14) Lit. 'light;' as ver.11, see ch. 36.32....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DOST THOU KNOW?] can you explain?...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...

  • 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 37 ELIHU INTRODUCES GOD TO...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LIGHT OF HIS CLOUD — _i.e.,_ lightning, as before. “Dost thou know all the secrets of God’s thunderbolts, at whom and how He will use them?” Some understand this otherwise: “Dost thou know when God se...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ֭ תֵדַע בְּ שׂוּם ־אֱלֹ֣והַּ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝

  • 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

    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...

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

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the (l) light of his cloud to shine? (l) That is, the lightning to break forth in the clouds?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Light: the rain-bow, according to the best interpreters; or the lightning. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • 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

    DOST THOU KNOW WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM?.... The clouds, that part of the wondrous works of God he was speaking of; when he decreed concerning them that they should be, when he put into them and stored...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? Ver. 15. _Dost thou know when God disposed them_] viz. Those wondrous works of God in the air especially; those vari...

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

    _Hearken unto this, O Job_, &c. Listen diligently unto these things; do not dispute any more with God, but silently consider these his wonderful works, and think, if there be so much matter of wonder...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Dost thou know when God disposed them, when He thinks about these miracles, when He plans to have them performed, AND CAUSED THE LIGHT OF HIS CLOUD TO SHINE? Could Job explain the phenomenon of lightn...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FINAL ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOB...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Does Job know how God controls the lightning and makes it flash?...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHEN GOD DISPOSED THEM, to wit, the things before mentioned, the clouds, rain, snow, thunder and lightning, and other meteors. Did God ask counsel from thee to acquaint thee with his counsels in the p...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 37:15 know H3045 (H8799) God H433 dispatches H7760 (H8800) light H216 cloud H6051 shine H3313 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 40:26; Job 28:24; Job 34:13; Job 36:30; Job 37:11;...

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