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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 38:35

Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?— Nothing can be more elevated and sublime than this verse. How strong the image! how simple the expression! We read of winged lightnings in the heathen ports; but where do they live, and act, and speak, and wait for orders with impatience, as here? See Peters, and Longinus on the Sublime, sect. 9 and Dr. Smith's notes on sect. 18.

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See also Job 38:35 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 38:35. _CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS_] We have already seen that the lightning is supposed to be immediately in the _hand_ and under the _management_ of God. The great god of the heathen, _Ju...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS? - That is, lightning is wholly under the control of God. So it is now; for after all that man has done to discover its laws, and to guard against it, yet still man has made...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM CHAPTER 38:1-38 _ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_ 2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4) Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WONDERS OF THE INANIMATE CREATION. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (contr...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    For _canst thou_it is better, as before, to read, DOST THOU?...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The direction of the regular movements of the heavens, and their influence upon the earth....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The wonders of the heavens....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _THE SHATTERING OF SILENCE_ VI. THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE PENITENCE OF JOB (Job 38:1, Job 42:6) A. INTEGRITY, CERTAINTY, AND KNOWLEDGE (Job 38:1, Job 40:2) 1.

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS, THAT THEY MAY GO, AND SAY UNTO THEE, HERE WE ARE?_ Here we are - at thy disposal (Isaiah 6:8)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (JOB 38:39) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to force fro...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job and his friends had just watched a storm. And the storm impressed them. The lightning was very powerful. The rain changed the solid ground into mud. Job had said that God’s power was like the powe...

  • 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 38 GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הַֽ תְשַׁלַּ֣ח בְּרָקִ֣ים וְ יֵלֵ֑כוּ וְ יֹאמ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues a voice....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WHAT MAN CANNOT DO Job 38:19 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4; the sea, Job 38:8; light,...

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

    Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challen...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? ...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    CANST THOU SEND LIGHTNINGS, THAT THEY MAY GO, AND SAY UNTO THEE, HERE WE [ARE]?] Thy humble servants; we have been where thou didst send us, and have executed what we were bid to do, and are returned,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we [are]? Ver. 35. _Canst thou send lightnings?_] _Nunquid emittes._ Canst thou send forth lightnings and thunder bolts, as hurtf...

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

    _Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds?_ Either thundering in them, or calling to them with a loud voice, and commanding them to rain. _That abundance of waters may cover thee?_ That is, may cove...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Canst thou send lightnings that they may go, at the command of Job, AND SAY UNTO THEE, HERE WE ARE, namely, at his disposal, ready to do his bidding?...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the whi...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    HERE WE ARE?: _ Heb._ behold us...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Neither can he command or direct lightning....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    CANST THOU SEND at thy pleasure, and upon thy errand? HERE WE ARE; an expression of servants, declaring their readiness to obey their masters commands; of which SEE POOLE ON "GENESIS 22:1" SEE POOLE O...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 38:35 send H7971 (H8762) lightnings H1300 go H3212 (H8799) say H559 (H8799) to you Here we are Canst -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who try to call God to account, will be called to account. Seeking to establish one's own character and darkening the counse...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 38:1. _The whirlwind._ Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in Psal...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Canst thou send lightnings?_ SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPHY Lightning is not a thing of yesterday. Whether Job knew the philosophy of lightning, or the facts of science, as taught in modern times; or whether,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:12 The Lord reminds Job that he cannot see fully what the Lord is doing about justice and judgment (see vv. Job 38:13,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB_ Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thunders...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY. EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 22:12; 2 Kings 1:10; 2 Kings 1:14; Exodus 9:23; Exodus 9:29;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....

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