Job 37:1-24
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29. SOUND] RM 'muttering.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM] the flashes and thunderclaps. 6C. RV 'And to the showers of his mighty rain.' 7B. RV 'That all men whom he hath made may know _it.'_The suspension of work by storms shows men that they are subject to a higher Power.... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'The whirlwind comes from its chamber, and cold from the scatterers,' i.e. from the winds (so RM), which scatter the clouds. But we should probably read, 'from its storehouses,' with a trifling change.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRAITENED] RM 'congealed.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RV 'Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture: he spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning.'... [ Continue Reading ]
The lightning flashes and falls in obedience to the behest of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably the first line should run, 'Whether it be for correction for his land.' The word translated 'or' has been repeated by mistake. 14-24. A series of questions to Job, intended, to produce submission and belief in God's providence.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOST THOU KNOW?] can you explain?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BALANCING OF THE CLOUDS] the way in which they are poised.... [ Continue Reading ]
Render, 'When thy clothes are hot, and the earth still by reason of the south wind.' Job 37:17 refer to the sultry weather and sky of brass before the storm breaks.... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOKING GLASS] RV 'mirror' (of metal). 19-20. Elihu shrinks from the presumptuous thought of contending with the Almighty, such as Job had uttered. 20B. RV 'Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up.'... [ Continue Reading ]
RM 'And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind hath passed and chased them.'... [ Continue Reading ]
FAIR WEATHER is literally 'gold.' The author probably intended 'brightness,' for which he may have used a different word. The reference may be to the Northern Lights. 23, 24. Elihu concludes by summing up the character of God as He manifests Himself to man. Though His dealings may be beyond man's c... [ Continue Reading ]
RESPECTETH] RV 'regardeth.' WISE OF HEART] i.e. confident in their own wisdom, as Job was in Elihu's opinion.... [ Continue Reading ]