Christian Standard Bible
Job 36:29
29Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
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 makes waterdrops evaporate; they distill the rain into its mist, 28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind. Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion? 30See how he spreads his lightning around him and covers the depths of the sea. 31For he judges the nations with these; he gives food in abundance.
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אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:29
- Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?
- Job 38:9when I made the clouds its garment and total darkness its blanket,
- 1 Kings 18:44On the seventh time, he reported, “There’s a cloud as small as a man’s hand coming up from the sea.” Then Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Get your chariot ready and go down so the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
- Psalms 104:3laying the beams of his palace on the waters above, making the clouds his chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,
- Job 37:2Just listen to his thunderous voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice heard.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord is above the waters. The God of glory thunders — the Lord, above the vast water,
- Psalms 77:16The water saw you, God. The water saw you; it trembled. Even the depths shook.
- Psalms 104:7At your rebuke the water fled; at the sound of your thunder they hurried away —
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
- Habakkuk 3:10The mountains see you and shudder; a downpour of water sweeps by. The deep roars with its voice and lifts its waves 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
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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
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