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Verse Job 36:28. _WHICH THE CLOUDS DO DROP_] In proportion to the
_evaporation_ will be the _clouds_ or _masses of volatilized_ and
_suspended vapour_; and in proportion to this will be the quantum of...
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UPON MAN ABUNDANTLY - That is, upon many people. The clouds having
received the ascending vapor, retain it, and pour it down copiously
for the use of man. The arrangement, to the eye even of one who d...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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The wonder of the rain-drops.
27. For he maketh small the rain-drops;
They distil the rain of his vapour;
28. Which the clouds pour down,
And drop upon the multitude of mankind.
27. _he maketh sma...
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_upon man abundantly_ This is possible, but the more natural meaning
is as above, the reference being to the universal reach of the rain,
and its fall on all mankind.
29 37:5. The marvel of the thund...
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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...
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_FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER: THEY POUR DOWN RAIN ACCORDING
TO THE VAPOUR THEREOF:_
The marvelous formation of rain (so Job 5:9; Job 37:13).
MAKETH SMALL - rather, 'He draweth (up) to Him...
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36:28 abundantly. (i-10) Or 'upon the multitude of mankind.'...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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אֲשֶֽׁר ־יִזְּל֥וּ שְׁחָקִ֑ים
יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ עֲלֵ֤י ׀ אָדָ֬ם...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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WHICH THE CLOUDS DO DROP [AND] DISTIL UPON MAN ABUNDANTLY. Not upon
the persons of men, which they take care as much as possible to shun
and avoid, but upon the fields of men, and so for the profit an...
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Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly.
Ver. 28. _Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly_]
Hence the Dutch call it _raegen,_ and we rained, _a rigando,_ from
water...
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_For he maketh small_, &c. Having affirmed that God's works are
incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now proves it from the most
common works of nature and providence. And hence he leaves it to Job...
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which the clouds do drop, namely, those coming up in a thick mass, as
in the case of a thunder-shower, AND DISTIL UPON MAN ABUNDANTLY....
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THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
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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....
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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,...
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In such plenty as the necessities of the earth require; which also is
a wonderful work of God....
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Genesis 7:11; Genesis 7:12; Job 37:11; Proverbs 3:20...
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HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB
Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3