Job 37:15

Job 37:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do you know when God dispatches them, And causes the light of His cloud to shine?
• New Living Translation (NLT)Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?

Context of Job 37:15

13He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. 14“Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders. Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? 16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge? 17You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

Job 37:15 word by word

הֲ֭תֵדַע בְּשׂוּם־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝הוֹפִ֗יעַ א֣וֹר עֲנָנֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Dost thou knowיָדַעyâda‛ · to knowH3045
• when Godאֱלֹהַּ'ĕlôahh 'ĕlôahh · godH433
• disposedשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: putH7760
• them, and caused the lightאוֹר'ôr · lightH216
• of his cloudעָנָן‛ânân · cloudH6051
• to shineיָפַעyâpha‛ · to shineH3313

Cross-references for Job 37:15

• Job 28:24for he views the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
• Job 34:13Who appointed him over the earth? Who put him in charge of the whole world?
• Job 38:4“Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
• Psalms 119:90Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures.
• Isaiah 40:26Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
• Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
• Job 36:30See how he scatters his lightning about him, bathing the depths of the sea.
• Job 38:24What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

Commentaries on Job 37:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15Dost thou know when God disposed them - Dost thou know the laws by which they are governed; and the causes which produce such and such phenomena? And caused the light of his cloud to shine? - Almost every critic of note understands this of the rainbow, which God gave as a sign that the earth should no more be destroyed by water. See Genesis 9:13; (note), and the note there.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15Dost thou know when God disposed them? - That is, the winds, the clouds, the cold, the snow, the sky, etc. The question refers to the manner in which God arranges and governs them, rather than to the time when it was done. So the Hebrew implies, and so the connection demands. The question was not whether Job knew “when” all this was done, but whether he could explain “how” it was that God thus arranged and ordered the things referred to. Elihu asks him…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. 1515. when--rather, "how." disposed them--lays His charge on these "wonders" (Job 37:14) to arise. light--lightning. shine--flash. How is it that light arises from the dark thundercloud?Read the comment

Topics related to Job 37:15

• God
• God Continued...
• Ignorance
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
• Religion

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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