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Verse Job 37:10. _BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN_] The
_freezing_ of water, though it is generally allowed to be the effect
of _cold_, and has been carefully examined by the most eminent
philoso...
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BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN - Not by the violent north wind,
or by the whirlwind of the south, but God seems to “breathe” in a
gentle manner, and the earth is covered with hoary frost. It appe...
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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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Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning
flashes (Job 37:3) then the thunder follows (Job 37:4 f.).
Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place while
Elih...
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BREATH. Hebrew. _neshamah._ App-16....
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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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BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN— _By the breath of God he giveth
ice, and he swelleth the waters by the thaw:_ Job 37:11. _Fair weather
also disperseth the cloud; his sun scattereth the cloud abro...
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F. THE CREATOR AND THE CREATION (Job 37:1-24)
1. The marvelous activity of God in nature (Job 37:1-13)
TEXT 37:1-13
37 Yea, at this my heart trembleth,
And is moved oat of its place.
2 Hear, oh,...
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_BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN: AND THE BREADTH OF THE WATERS IS
STRAITENED._
Frost - rather, ice.
THE BREATH OF GOD - poetically for the ice-producing north wind.
STRAITENED - physically a...
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THE SPEECHES OF ELIHU (CONCLUDED)
2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29.
SOUND] RM 'muttering.'...
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For many Chapter s, Job and his friends had talked about God. Some
things that they said were correct. But other things were wrong. Job
and his friends were talking about things that they did not know...
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THE BREADTH OF THE WATERS IS STRAITENED. — Firm, like a molten mass....
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מִ נִּשְׁמַת ־אֵ֥ל יִתֶּן ־קָ֑רַח וְ
רֹ֖חַב מַ֣יִם בְּ מוּצָֽק׃...
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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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THE LIGHT IN THE CLOUDS
Job 37:1
As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery
of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened
to the sound of God's voic...
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The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is
here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the
clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings o...
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By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters (g)
is straitened.
(g) That is, frozen up and dried....
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_Abundantly. He cause it to freeze or rain at pleasure. (Haydock)
(Psalm cxlvii. 17.) (Menochius)_...
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(8) Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. (9) Out
of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (10) By
the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the wat...
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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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BY THE BREATH OF GOD FROST IS GIVEN,.... By the word of God, as the
Targum; at his command it is, at his word it comes, and at his word it
goes, Psalms 147:15; or by his will, as Ben Gersom interprets...
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By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is
straitened.
Ver. 10. _By the breath of God frost is given_] Frost is the excess of
cold by the blowing of the coldest winds, whic...
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_Out of the south_ Hebrew, מן החרד, _min ha-chered:_ εκ
ταμειων : _de promptuariis, out of the store-houses_, LXX.; _ab
interioribus, from the inner chambers_, Vulgate Latin. The same with
_the chambe...
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THE LAST WORD ON THE MIRACLES IN NATUREV. 1. AT THIS, namely, the
powerful exhibition of God's majesty, as just described, ALSO MY HEART
TREMBLETH AND IS MOVED OUT OF HIS PLACE, springing up, giving a...
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MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM
(vv.1-5)
As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The
thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His
lightning spreads over the whol...
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1-13 The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our
thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of
these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of t...
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BY THE BREATH OF GOD, i.e. by the word of God, as this very phrase is
explained, PSALMS 33:6; by his will or appointment, to which as the
principal cause all these works are ascribed. THE BREADTH OF T...
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Job 37:10 breath H5397 God H410 ice H7140 given H5414 (H8799) broad
H7341 waters H4325 frozen H4164
Job 38:29-30; Psalms 78:47, Psalms 147:16-18...
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CONTENTS: Elihu's discourse continued. God's majesty.
CHARACTERS: God, Elihu, Job.
CONCLUSION: We must all own that our finite understandings cannot
comprehend the infinite perfections of God, but w...
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Job 37:5. _God thundereth marvellously with his voice._ See on Psalms
29. This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime
description of a storm.
Job 37:22. The golden splendour _co...
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_Hear attentively the noise of His voice._
WHAT IS ELIHU’S MESSAGE
What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that
suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as well as...
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_ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED_
Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud
thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the
Almighty was about to speak, and...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 37:1
It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between
Job 36:1 and Job 37:1.—the description of the thunderstorm and its
effects runs on. From its effect on cattl...
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At this also my heart trembled, and is moved out of his place. Hear
attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of
his mouth. He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightni...
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Job 38:29; Job 38:30; Psalms 147:16; Psalms 78:47...
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The waters — The waters which had freely spread themselves before,
are congealed and bound up in crystal fetters....