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 the water vapor and then distills it into rain. 28The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits. Who can understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven? 30See how he spreads the lightning around him and how it lights up the depths of the sea. 31By these mighty acts he nourishes the people, giving them 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 understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill?
• Job 38:9and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness?
• 1 Kings 18:44Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.” Then Elijah shouted, “Hurry to Ahab and tell him, ‘Climb into your chariot and go back home. If you don’t hurry, the rain will stop you!’”
• Psalms 104:3you lay out the rafters of your home in the rain clouds. You make the clouds your chariot; you ride upon the wings of the wind.
• Job 37:2Listen carefully to the thunder of God’s voice as it rolls from his mouth.
• Psalms 18:13The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded amid the hail and burning coals.
• Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord echoes above the sea. The God of glory thunders. The Lord thunders over the mighty sea.
• Psalms 77:16When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths.
• Psalms 104:7At your command, the water fled; at the sound of your thunder, it hurried away.
• Nahum 1:3The Lord is slow to get angry, but his power is great, and he never lets the guilty go unpunished. He displays his power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing clouds are the dust beneath his feet.
• Habakkuk 3:10The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. The mighty deep cried out, lifting its hands in submission.

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