Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 36:32
RV 'He covereth his hands with the lightning' (to conceal them): 'and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.'
RV 'He covereth his hands with the lightning' (to conceal them): 'and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.'
Verse Job 36:32. _WITH CLOUDS HE COVERETH THE LIGHT._] This is all extraordinary saying, על כפים כמה אור _al cappayim kissah or_, which Mr. _Good_ translates, "He brandisheth the blaze athwart the co...
WITH CLOUDS HE COVERETH THE LIGHT - The Hebrew here is, על־כפים _‛__al_-_kaphiym_ - “upon his hands.” Jerome, “In manibus abscondit lucem,” “he hideth the light in his hands.” Septuagint, Ἐπὶ χειρῶ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_WITH CLOUDS HE COVERETH THE LIGHT; AND COMMANDETH IT NOT TO SHINE BY THE CLOUD THAT COMETH BETWIXT._ Rather, 'He covereth (both) His hands with light (lightning, Job 37:3, margin: literally, 'upon bo...
36:32 lightning, (m-6) Lit. 'light,' as ch. 37.11. strike. (n-14) Or 'dischargeth it against the foe.'...
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...
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...
WITH CLOUDS. — The word here rendered “clouds” really means _hands,_ and there seems to be no good reason why it should be otherwise understood. The verse will then read, “He covereth the lightning wi...
עַל ־כַּפַּ֥יִם כִּסָּה ־אֹ֑ור וַ יְצַ֖ו עָלֶ
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...
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...
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...
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh (z) betwixt. (z) That is, one cloud to dash against another....
_Hands, or clouds, which are compared to a hand, 3 Kings xviii. 44. He opens his hand, and light appears. This expression denotes the utmost facility with which a very surprising thing is effected. --...
(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...
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...
WITH CLOUDS HE COVERETH THE LIGHT,.... Either the lightning, which is hid and covered in the black dark cloud until it bursts out of it; or the light of the sun, which is wonderful, that waters natura...
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh betwixt. Ver. 32. _With clouds he covereth the light_] Heb. With the palms of his hands (so the clouds a...
_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...
THE DIVINE JUSTICE AS SUPREME POWER AND WISDOM...
With clouds He covereth the light, literally, "Upon both hands He covers light," namely, with the lightnings which He casts forth over the earth; AND COMMANDETH IT NOT TO SHINE BY THE CLOUD THAT COMET...
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....
Lightning is poetically spoken as if coming from God's own hands, as if God was sending lightning, as an archer shoots arrows at. target....
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,...
WITH CLOUDS; with thick and black clouds spread over the whole heavens, as it is in times of great thunders and lightnings. Heb. _With hands_; either the clouds are so called for their resemblance to...
Job 36:32 covers H3680 (H8765) hands H3709 lightning H216 commands H6680 (H8762) strike H6293 (H8688)...
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...
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...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 36:32 HANDS may be a way of describing the great arches of heaven, filled with God’s light. ⇐...
_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...
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...
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...
Acts 27:20; Exodus 10:21; Job 26:9; Psalms 135:7; Psalms 147:8;...
HIGH ALTITUDES IN ELIHU'S ANSWER TO JOB Job 32:1, Job 33:1; Job 34:1; Job 35:1; Job 3
Clouds — With thick and black clouds spread over the whole heavens. Light — The sun. The cloud — Which God interposes as a veil between the sun and earth....