New English Translation
Job 37:16
16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?
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“Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works. 15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud? Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge? 17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind, 18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten 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 locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
- Job 36:29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
- Psalms 104:2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
- Isaiah 40:22He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.
- Jeremiah 10:13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
- Job 36:4For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.
- Psalms 104:24How many living things you have made, O Lord! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.
- Psalms 147:5Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.
- Proverbs 3:19By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.
- Jeremiah 10:12The Lord is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.
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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