New International Version
Job 36:29
29Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
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?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Who can understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
Context of Job 36:29
27“He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams; 28the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind. Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion? 30See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea. 31This is the way he governs the nations and provides food in abundance.
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אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:29
- Job 37:16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?
- Job 38:9when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,
- 1 Kings 18:44The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’ ”
- Psalms 104:3and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind.
- Job 37:2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.
- Psalms 77:16The waters saw you, God, the waters saw you and writhed; the very depths were convulsed.
- Psalms 104:7But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight;
- Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.
- Habakkuk 3:10the mountains saw you and writhed. Torrents of water swept by; the deep roared and lifted its waves on 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
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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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