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Verse Job 36:33. _THE NOISE THEREOF SHOWETH CONCERNING IT, THE CATTLE_
_ALSO CONCERNING THE VAPOUR._] I think this translation very unhappy.
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יגיד עליו ר...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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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_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...
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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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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.'...
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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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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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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...
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יַגִּ֣יד עָלָ֣יו רֵעֹ֑ו מִ֝קְנֶ֗ה
אַ֣ף עַל ־ע
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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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(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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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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THE VAPOUR:
_ Heb._ that which goeth up...
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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....
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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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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...
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Job 36:33 thunder H7452 declares H5046 (H8686) cattle H4735 rising
H5927 (H8802) storm
noise - Job 36:2
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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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1 Kings 18:41; 2 Samuel 22:14; Jeremiah 14:4; Job 36:27; Job 36:29;
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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
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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...