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 draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth, 28Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly. But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion? 30Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea. 31For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.

Job 36:29 word by word

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

• understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• cloudsעָב‛âb · cloudH5645

Cross-references for Job 36:29

• Job 37:16Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 38:9When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it;
• 1 Kings 18:44And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said, Behold there is a cloud, small as a man's hand, arising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Harness and go down, that the pour of rain stop thee not.
• Psalms 104:3Who layeth the beams of his upper chambers in the waters, who maketh clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind;
• Job 37:2Hear attentively the roar of his voice, and the murmur going forth from his mouth.
• Psalms 18:13And Jehovah thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice: hail and coals of fire.
• Psalms 29:3The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, — Jehovah upon great waters.
• Psalms 77:16The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they trembled, yea, the depths were troubled:
• Psalms 104:7At thy rebuke they fled, at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away; —
• Nahum 1:3Jehovah is slow to anger, and great in power, and doth not at all clear [the guilty]: Jehovah, — his way is in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
• Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on 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