God’s Word Translation
Job 36:29
29Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place?
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
27He collects drops of water. He distills rain from his mist, 28which then drips from the clouds. It pours down on many people. Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place? 30Look, he scatters his flashes of lightning around him and covers the depths of the sea. 31This is how he uses the rains to provide for people and to give them more than enough food.
Read all of Job 36Job 36:29 word by word
אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 36:29
- Job 37:16Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),
- Job 38:9when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,
- 1 Kings 18:44After the seventh time the servant said, “A little cloud like a man’s hand is coming from the sea.” Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare ⌞your chariot⌟, and leave before the rain delays you.’ ”
- Psalms 104:3You lay the beams of your home in the water. You use the clouds for your chariot. You move on the wings of the wind.
- Job 37:2Listen! Listen to the roar of God’s voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord rolls over the water. The God of glory thunders. The Lord shouts over raging water.
- Psalms 77:16The water saw you, O God. The water saw you and shook. Even the depths of the sea trembled.
- Psalms 104:7and fled because of your threat. Water ran away at the sound of your thunder.
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is patient and has great strength. The Lord will never let the guilty go unpunished. Raging winds and storms mark his path, and clouds are the dust from his feet.
- Habakkuk 3:10The mountains look at you. They writhe in pain. Floodwaters pass by. The deep ocean roars. Its waves rise 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
Topics related to Job 36:29
In the dictionaries
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
God’s Word Translation — © 1995 God’s Word to the Nations Bible Society
Commentaries