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Job 37:16
16Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),
Job 37:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Context of Job 37:16
14“Open your ears to this, Job. Stop and consider God’s miracles. 15Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds? Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything), 17you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind? 18Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?
Read all of Job 37Job 37:16 word by word
הֲ֭תֵדַע עַל־מִפְלְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב מִ֝פְלְא֗וֹת תְּמִ֣ים דֵּעִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:16
- Job 26:8He holds the water in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t ⌞even⌟ split under its ⌞weight⌟.
- Job 36:29Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place?
- Psalms 104:2You cover yourself with light as though it were a robe. You stretch out the heavens as though they were curtains.
- Isaiah 40:22God is enthroned above the earth, and those who live on it are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the sky like a canopy and spreads it out like a tent to live in.
- Jeremiah 10:13He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.
- Job 36:4Certainly, my words are not lies. The one who knows everything is ⌞speaking⌟ with you.
- Psalms 104:24What a large number of things you have made, O Lord! You made them all by wisdom. The earth is filled with your creatures.
- Psalms 147:5Our Lord is great, and his power is great. There is no limit to his understanding.
- Proverbs 3:19By Wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth. By understanding he established the heavens.
- Jeremiah 10:12The Lord made the earth by his power. He set up the world by his skill. He stretched out the world by his understanding.
Commentaries on Job 37:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds - How are the clouds suspended in the atmosphere? Art thou so well acquainted with the nature of evaporation, and the gravity of the air at different heights, to support different weights of aqueous vapor, so as to keep them floating for a certain portion of time, and then let them down to water the earth; dost thou know these things so as to determine the laws by which they are regulated? Wondrous works of him…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? - That is, Dost thou know how the clouds are poised and suspended in the air? The difficulty to be explained was, that the clouds, so full of water, did not fail to the earth, but remained suspended in the atmosphere. They were poised and moved about by some unseen hand. Elihu asks what kept them there; what prevented their falling to the earth; what preserved the equilibrium so that they did not all roll…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-20Verses 14-20 Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, So 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. Hebrew, "Hast thou understanding of the balancings," &c., how the clouds are poised in the air, so that their watery gravity does not bring them to the earth? The condensed moisture, descending by gravity, meets a warmer temperature, which dissipates it into vapor (the tendency of which is to ascend) and so counteracts the descending force. perfect in knowledge--God; not here in the sense that Elihu uses it of himself (Job 36:4). dost thou know--how…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- 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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