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Verse Job 37:18. _HAST THOU WITH HIM SPREAD OUT THE SKY_] Wert thou
with him when he made the expanse; fitted the weight to the winds;
proportioned the aqueous to the terrene surface of the globe; the...
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HAST THOU WITH HIM SPREAD OUT THE SKY? - That is, wert thou employed
with God in performing that vast work, that thou canst explain how it
was done? Elihu here speaks of the sky as it appears, and as...
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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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Job is invited to consider God's wonders. Does he know how God lays
His charge upon them, _i.e._ probably the phenomena just described by
Elihu in Job 37:1? Does he understand the flashing of the ligh...
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SKY. skies.
LOOKING GLASS. mirror....
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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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2. Man should realize his insignificant position and fear God. (Job
37:14-24)
TEXT 37:14-24
14 HEARKEN UNTO THIS, O JOB:
Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Dost thou know how...
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_HAST THOU WITH HIM SPREAD OUT THE SKY, WHICH IS STRONG, AND AS A
MOLTEN LOOKING GLASS?_ _ HAST THOU WITH HIM SPREAD OUT THE SKY, WHICH
IS STRONG, AND AS A MOLTEN LOOKING GLASS?_
With him - like as h...
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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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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 37
ELIHU INTRODUCES GOD TO...
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_(_18_)_ SPREAD OUT THE SKY. — Some understand this of the action of
the sun in dispersing the clouds; but it seems more probable that it
refers to God. “Hast thou spread out with Him the magnificent...
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תַּרְקִ֣יעַ עִ֭מֹּו לִ שְׁחָקִ֑ים
חֲ֝זָקִ֗ים כִּ רְאִ֥י 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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Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a
molten looking (o) glass?
(o) For the clearness....
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_Brass. Hebrew, "Hast thou with him stretched out (or beaten, as
brass, tarkiang; which word Moses uses for the firmament) the heavens,
which are as solid (Chaldean, and like) a molten looking-glass?...
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(14) В¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the
wondrous works of God. (15) Dost thou know when God disposed them, and
caused the light of his cloud to shine? (16) Dost thou know the
b...
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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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HAST THOU WITH HIM SPREAD OUT THE SKY?.... Wast thou concerned with
him at the first spreading out of the sky? wast thou an assistant to
him in it? did he not spread it as a curtain or canopy about hi...
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Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a
molten looking glass?
Ver. 18. _Hast thou with him spread out the sky_] He had convinced Job
of his ignorance, and now he will of...
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_Hast thou, with him, spread out the sky_ Wast thou his assistant in
spreading out the sky, like a canopy, over the earth? _Which is
strong_ Which, though it be very thin and transparent, yet is also...
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FINAL ADMONITION ADDRESSED TO JOB...
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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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Nor is Job able, like God, to spread out the skies. "Mirrors were made
of bronze that had been heated, flattened, and polished. The cloudless
summer sky appeared to be such. mirror" _(Zuck p. 160)._ I...
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14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to
all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he
has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared t...
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Wast thou his co-worker or assistant in spreading out the sky like a
tent or canopy over the earth? or canst thou spread out such another
sky? Then indeed thou mayst with some colour pretend to be pri...
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Job 37:18 out H7554 (H8686) skies H7834 Strong H2389 cast H3332
(H8716) mirror H7209
spread - Job 9:8-9; Genesis 1:6-8; Psalms 104:2, Psalms 148:4-6,
Psalms 150:1;...
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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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_Hast thou with Him spread out the sky?_
THE SKY
For beauty, for inspiration, for health and refreshment, for a sense
of freedom and enlargement, is there anything like the sky when the
earth does no...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 37:14 Elihu focuses on God’s majesty. He calls on
Job to listen (HEAR THIS, O JOB) and consider this description in his
complaint before God.
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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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Exodus 38:8; Genesis 1:6; Isaiah 40:12; Isaiah 40:22; Isaiah 44:24;
Job 9:8; Job 9:9; Proverbs 8:27; Psalms 104:2; Psalms 148:4;...
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With him — Wast thou his assistant in spreading out the sky like a
canopy over the earth? Strong — Which though it be very thin and
transparent, yet is also firm and compact and steadfast. Looking gla...
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Does the Bible err in speaking of a solid dome above the earth?
PROBLEM: Job speaks of God who “spread out the skies” like “a
cast metal mirror” (37:18). Indeed, the Hebrew word for the
“firmament” ...