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Job 38:36
36Who has given people wisdom, so that they understand things with their minds?
Job 38:36 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
- New International Version (NIV)Who gives the ibis wisdom or gives the rooster understanding?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Who has put wisdom in the mind? Or who has given understanding to the heart?
Context of Job 38:36
34You cannot shout commands to the clouds. You cannot tell them to pour down their rain, so that a flood of water covers you. 35You cannot send the lightning to hit the place that you want it to go. The lightning does not say to you, “We are ready to go wherever you want.” Who has given people wisdom, so that they understand things with their minds? 37Is anyone wise enough to count the clouds? Can anyone cause the clouds to pour down rain from above? 38The rain causes the dust of the dry ground to become hard. The dry soil becomes pieces of mud.
Read all of Job 38Job 38:36 word by word
מִי־שָׁ֭ת בַּטֻּח֣וֹת חָכְמָ֑ה א֤וֹ מִֽי־נָתַ֖ן לַשֶּׂ֣כְוִי בִינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 38:36
- Job 32:8But it is a person's spirit that helps them to understand things. Almighty God has to put his breath into them.
- Psalms 51:6But you want me to be completely good and honest. You want to teach me to be wise in the way that I live.
- Proverbs 2:6It is the Lord who gives wisdom to people. He teaches us to understand things, so that we know what is true.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26God gives wisdom, knowledge and joy to people who please him. Wicked people may work hard and become rich. But God takes away their valuable things and he gives them to someone who pleases him. So their hard work has no purpose. It is like somebody who tries to catch the wind.
- James 1:5But maybe you need to know how to be wise. Then ask God to help you. He is ready to give everyone what they need. And he never says that it is wrong to ask. So God will help you to be wise.
- Exodus 31:3I have filled him with my Spirit so that he has special skills. He knows how to make many kinds of things.
- Exodus 36:1Then Moses said, ‘Bezalel and Oholiab will do the work that the Lord has commanded us to do. Everyone that the Lord has helped to have special skills will work with them. They will help to build the tabernacle and all the other special things that the Lord has commanded.’
- Isaiah 28:26God teaches the farmer and he tells him the right thing to do.
Commentaries on Job 38:36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 36Who hath put wisdom in the in ward parts? - Who has given לשכוי lasechvi, to the contemplative person, understanding? Even the most sedulous attention to a subject, and the deepest contemplation, are not sufficient to investigate truth, without the inspiration of the Almighty, which alone can give understanding. But who has given man the power to conceive and understand? A power which he knows he has, but which he cannot comprehend. Man knows nothing of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? - There is great variety in the interpretation of this passage. Jerome renders it, Quis posuit in visceribus heminis sapienttam? Vel quis dedit gallo intelligentiam? “Who hath put wisdom in the inner parts of man? Or who has given to the cock intelligence?” Just as strangely, the Septuagint has: “Who hath given to women skill in weaving, and a knowledge of the art of embroidering?.” One of the Targums renders it…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-41Verses 25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he can do, therefore he ought not to oppose the ways of Providence. See the all-sufficiency of the Divine Providence; it has wherewithal to satisfy the desire of every living thing. And he that takes care of the young ravens, certainly will not be wanting…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 36heart … mind: These words can also mean "ibis" and "rooster." The Egyptians believed the ibis bird knew about the Nile's flooding, the most important event in Egypt. Israel’s rabbis (religious teachers with authority) believed the rooster bird could predict rain or its distinctive sound (crowing) marked day and night. The question would then be Who taught the ibis and the rooster? See also Psalm 51:6; Proverbs 2:6; James 1:5, 17.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 19-3819-38. The marvels in heaven. "What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 38
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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