Job 36:27, to end of the next chapter. Elihu concludes his discourse with observations and improvements of God's wondrous works in the clouds - rain, lightning, and thunder. It appears to me probable that the occasion of it was the appearance, at a distance, of the clouds and lightning and thunder o... [ Continue Reading ]
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, which is the uttermost part of the pavement or ground of the tabernacle. Here the clouds are represent... [ Continue Reading ]
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 sea meet in the horizon, and those parts of the sea that are below the horizon, which they conceive... [ Continue Reading ]