Tree of Life Version
Job 36:29
29Indeed, who can understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunder 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?
- 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
27For He draws up the drops of water; they distill rain into its mist, 28which the clouds pour down and shower mankind abundantly. Indeed, who can understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunder from His pavilion? 30“See how He scatters His lightning about Him, covering the depths of the sea. 31For by these, He judges peoples and supplies 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 the balancing of clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?
- Job 38:9when I made a cloud its garment and thick darkness its swaddling cloth,
- 1 Kings 18:44and it was the seventh time that he said, “Look! A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.” Then he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
- Psalms 104:3laying beams for His upper rooms in waters, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind,
- Job 37:2Listen carefully to the roar of His voice, the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- Psalms 18:13Out of the brilliance before Him passed His thick clouds, hail and fiery coals.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of Adonai is over the waters. The God of glory thunders— Adonai is over mighty waters.
- Psalms 77:16With your arm You redeemed Your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
- Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled. At the sound of Your thunder they hurried away.
- Nahum 1:3Adonai is slow to anger and great in power, but He will by no means acquit the guilty. Adonai’s way is with a whirlwind or with a storm wind, Clouds are the dust of His feet.
- Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and writhe. A downpour of water overflows. The deep gives its voice— it lifts up 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
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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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