English Standard Version
Job 36:30
30Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
Job 36:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- New International Version (NIV)See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look, He scatters His light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.
- New Living Translation (NLT)See how he spreads the lightning around him and how it lights up the depths of the sea.
Context of Job 36:30
28which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly. 29Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea. 31For by these he judges peoples; he gives food in abundance. 32He covers his hands with the lightning and commands it to strike the mark.
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הֵן־פָּרַ֣שׂ עָלָ֣יו אוֹר֑וֹ וְשָׁרְשֵׁ֖י הַיָּ֣ם כִּסָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:30
- Job 38:25"Who has cleft a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,
- Luke 17:24For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.
- Job 38:8"Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,
- Genesis 1:9And God said, "Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so.
- Exodus 14:22And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
- Exodus 15:4"Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
- Psalms 18:11He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water.
- Psalms 104:5He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
Commentaries on Job 36:30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 30He spreadeth his light upon it - Or, as Mr. Good translates, "He throweth forth from it his flash." These two verses may both have an allusion to the sudden rarefaction of that part of the atmosphere whence the thunder proceeds, by the agency of the electric fluid; the rushing in of the air on each side to restore the equilibrium, which the passage of the fire had before destroyed. The noise produced by this sudden rushing in of the air, as well as that…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 30Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it - That is, upon his tabernacle or dwelling-place - the clouds. The allusion is to lightning, which flashes in a moment over the whole heavens. The image is exceedingly beautiful and graphic. The idea of “spreading out” the light in an instant over the whole of the darkened heavens, is that which Elihu had in his mind, and which impressed him so forcibly. On the difficulty in regard to the translation of the…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. 3030. light--lightning. it--His tabernacle (Job 36:29). The light, in an instant spread over the vast mass of dark clouds, forms a striking picture. spread--is repeated from Job 36:29 to form an antithesis. "He spreads not only clouds, but light." covereth the bottom--roots. of the sea--namely, with the light. In the storm the depths of ocean are laid bare; and the light "covers" them, at the same moment that it "spreads" across the dark sky. So in Psa…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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