God’s Word Translation
Job 36:30
30Look, he scatters his flashes of lightning around him and covers the depths 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Behold, he scatters his lightning about him and covers the roots of the sea.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Look, He scatters His light upon it, And covers the depths of the sea.
Context of Job 36:30
28which then drips from the clouds. It pours down on many people. 29Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place? Look, 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. 32He fills his hands with lightning and orders it to hit the target.
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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 made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms
- Luke 17:24The day of the Son of Man will be like lightning that flashes from one end of the sky to the other.
- Job 38:8“Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb,
- Genesis 1:9Then God said, “Let the water under the sky come together in one area, and let the dry land appear.” And so it was.
- Exodus 14:22and the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground. The water stood like a wall on their right and on their left.
- Exodus 15:4He has thrown Pharaoh’s chariots and army into the sea. Pharaoh’s best officers were drowned in the Red Sea.
- Psalms 18:11He made the darkness his hiding place, the dark rain clouds his covering.
- Psalms 104:5You set the earth on its foundations so that it can never be shaken.
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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