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Job 36:29
29Who understands how the clouds move across the sky? How does the noise of thunder come from God's home?
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
27It is God who pulls up water from the earth to make the clouds. Then he causes it to become rain. 28The rain pours down from the clouds. There is plenty for the people on the earth. Who understands how the clouds move across the sky? How does the noise of thunder come from God's home? 30Look at the lightning that God sends all over the sky! But he causes the bottom of the sea to remain dark. 31This is the way that God rules the people of the world. He sends the rain to give them plenty of food.
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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 37:16Can you explain how the clouds hang in the sky? God knows everything perfectly and he does these wonderful things.
- Job 38:9I caused the clouds to come over the sea. I covered it with complete darkness.
- 1 Kings 18:44The seventh time, the servant said, ‘I can see a small cloud above the sea that is coming this way. It is only as big as a man's hand.’ So Elijah said, ‘Go and tell Ahab, “Prepare your chariot now! Go back down quickly before the rain stops you.” ’
- Psalms 104:3You have built the beams of your home on the clouds of rain. The clouds carry you as you travel, and you ride on the wind.
- Job 37:2Listen carefully to the sound of God's voice, when he speaks like thunder.
- Psalms 18:13The Lord sent thunder from the sky. People everywhere heard the voice of the Most High God.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord shouts over the water. The God of glory makes the noise of thunder. The Lord appears over the great sea.
- Psalms 77:16The waters of the sea saw you, God. When they saw you, they shook with fear! Even the deepest seas were afraid.
- Psalms 104:7But when you shouted, the water went back. It ran away, when you shouted like thunder.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord will punish those who do wrong things. But he does not get angry quickly. He is a powerful God. The Lord does not get angry quickly. But he gets angry when people do wrong things. Then he punishes those people. He is very powerful. You can see his power in the wind and the storms. The clouds are like dust that his feet shake.
- Habakkuk 3:10The mountains see you and they shake. Rain pours down from the sky and it causes floods. The deep sea roars and it lifts its waves up 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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