Job 36:29

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 draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist, 28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly. Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion? 30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea. 31It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

Job 36:29 word by word

אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• understandבִּיןbîyn · to understandH995
• the spreadingsמִפְרָשׂmiphrâώ · spreadingH4666
• of the cloudsעָב‛âb · cloudH5645
• the noiseתְּשֻׁאָהteshû'âh · shoutH8663
• of his tabernacleסֻכָּהsûkkâh · boothH5521

Cross-references for Job 36:29

• Job 37:16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 38:9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,
• 1 Kings 18:44The seventh time the servant said, “Look, a small cloud, the size of the palm of a man’s hand, is rising up from the sea.” Elijah then said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up the chariots and go down, so that the rain won’t overtake you.’”
• Psalms 104:3and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.
• Job 37:2Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.
• Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered in the sky; the sovereign One shouted.
• Psalms 29:3The Lord’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the Lord appears over the surging water.
• Psalms 77:16The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear.
• Psalms 104:7Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off –
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will certainly not allow the wicked to go unpunished. He marches out in the whirlwind and the raging storm; dark storm clouds billow like dust under his feet.
• Habakkuk 3:10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands 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

• Ignorance
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena

In the dictionaries

• Ascribe
• Elihu
• Esteem
• Hang
• Cloud
• God
• Noise
• Pavilion

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