Job 36:29

Job 36:29 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
• New International Version (NIV)Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?

Context of Job 36:29

27For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist, 28Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind.” “Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds Or the thundering of His pavilion? 30Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds], And He covers the depths of the sea. 31For by these [mighty acts] He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.

Job 36:29 word by word

אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• the spreadingsמִפְרָשׂmiphrâώ · spreadingH4666
• of the cloudsעָב‛âb · cloudH5645
• the noiseתְּשֻׁאָהteshû'âh · shoutH8663
• of his tabernacleסֻכָּהsûkkâh · boothH5521

Cross-references for Job 36:29

• Job 37:16Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens], The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,
• Job 38:9When I made the clouds its garment And thick darkness its swaddling band,
• 1 Kings 18:44And at the seventh time the servant said, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And Elijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the rain shower does not stop you.’ ”
• Psalms 104:3Who lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters [above the firmament], Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind,
• Job 37:2Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out of His mouth!
• Psalms 18:13The Lord also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; The God of glory thunders; The Lord is over many waters.
• Psalms 77:16The waters [of the Red Sea] saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.
• Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke they fled; At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger and great in power And He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. The Lord has His way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and [they] trembled and writhed [as if in pain]; The downpour of waters swept by [as a deluge]. The deep uttered its voice and raged, It lifted its hands high.

Commentaries on Job 36:29

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds - Though the vapor appear to be fortuitously raised, and subject, when suspended in the atmosphere, to innumerable accidents, to different winds and currents which might drive it all to the sandy deserts, or direct its course so that it should fall again into the great deep from which it has been exhaled, without watering and refreshing the earth; yet so does the good and wise providence of God manage this…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? - The out spreading - the manner in which they expand themselves over us. The idea is, that the manner in which the clouds seem to “spread out,” or unfold themselves on the sky, could not be explained, and was a striking proof of the wisdom and power of God. In the early periods of the world, it could not be expected that the causes of these phenomena would be known. Now that the causes “are” better…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-33Verses 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, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought to give him the glory. But while the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the true believer should rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's voice, even when he speaks in terror to his…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. (Job 37:5). God's marvels in thunder and lightnings. spreadings, &c.--the canopy of thick clouds, which covers the heavens in a storm (Psa 105:39). the noise--"crashing"; namely, thunder. of his tabernacle--God being poetically said to have His pavilion amid dark clouds (Psa 18:11; Is 40:22).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 36:29

• Ignorance
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena

In the dictionaries

• Ascribe
• Elihu
• Esteem
• Hang
• Cloud
• God
• Noise
• Pavilion

Commentaries on Job 36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings