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Verse Job 36:27. _HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER_] This appears
simply to refer to _evaporation_, and perhaps it would be better to
translate יגרע _yegara_, "he exhales;" detaches the smallest
par...
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FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF WATER - Elihu now appeals, as he
proposed to do, to the works of God, and begins with what appeared so
remarkable and inexplicable, the wisdom of God in the rain and t...
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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 (Job 37:17)
Job 36:22....
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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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FOR HE MAKETH SMALL, &C.— _Who causeth the exhalations of the waters
to mount on high, which form the rain in his clouds,_ (Job 36:28.)
_when the heavens pour down._...
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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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36:27 formeth, (h-18) Lit 'according to his vapour.'...
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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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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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THE DROPS OF WATER. — The origin and first beginnings of the tempest
are described. “He maketh small,” or draweth up by exhalation.
“They pour down rain,” or “they distil in rain from His
vapour,” or...
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כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי ־מָ֑יִם
יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְ אֵדֹֽו׃...
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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 wil...
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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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For he maketh small the drops of water: they (s) pour down rain
according to the vapour thereof:
(s) That is, the rain comes from those drops of water which he keeps
in the clouds....
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_Floods. God causes the water on the earth to evaporate, (Calmet) to
form the clouds, (Haydock) which afterwards fall in torrents.
(Menochius) --- Theodotion, "the drops of rain are numbered by him,...
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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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FOR HE MAKETH SMALL THE DROPS OF RAIN,.... Elihu proceeds to give
instances and proofs of the greatness of God, and begins with rain, as
Eliphaz does, Job 5:9; a common phenomenon, what is very freque...
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For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according
to the vapour thereof:
Ver. 27. _For he maketh small the drops of water_] Here Elihu
beginneth to instance the greatness of God i...
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Job 36:27, to end of the next chapter. Elihu concludes his discourse
with observations and improvements of God's wondrous works in the
clouds - rain, lightning, and thunder. It appears to me probable...
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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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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 water-vapor cycle is one example of God's majesty, for by His laws
God draws up moisture which distills or condenses and forms rain for
man in abundance (see Ecc. Job 1:7)....
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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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Having affirmed that God's works are incomprehensibly great and
glorious, he now enters upon the proof of it; and he proveth it from
the most common and visible works of nature and providence, which i...
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Job 36:27 draws H1639 (H8762) drops H5198 water H4325 distill H2212
(H8799) rain H4306 mist H108
he - Job 5:9, Job 38:25-28, Job 38:34; Genesis 2:5-6; Psalms 65:9-13;...
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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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_God is great, and we know Him not._
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
These words recall the supreme questions which divide hostile
philosophies. Even Christian apologists have maintained that God is
inaccessib...
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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...
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Genesis 2:5; Genesis 2:6; Isaiah 5:6; Jeremiah 14:22; Job 36:33; Job
38:25; Job 38:34; Job 5:9; Psalms 148:8; Psalms 65:9...
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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 36:1_
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We now come to that part of the Book of Job which presents a most
remarkable message sp...
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For — 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 to consider how much...