Tree of Life Version
Job 37:16
16Do you know the balancing of clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect 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“Listen to this, Job: stand and consider God’s wonders. 15Do you know how God orders them, and makes the lightning flash in His cloud? Do you know the balancing of clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge? 17“You, whose clothes are hot, when the earth is still, because of the south wind, 18can you, with Him, stretch out the skies, strong 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 37:16
- Job 26:8He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under them.
- Job 36:29Indeed, who can understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunder from His pavilion?
- Psalms 104:2wrapping Yourself in light as a robe, stretching out heaven like a curtain,
- Isaiah 40:22He sits above the circle of the earth— its inhabitants are like grasshoppers— He stretches out the skies like a curtain, spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
- Jeremiah 10:13When His voice thunders, waters in heaven roar. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth wind from His storehouses.
- Job 36:4For truly, my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- Psalms 104:24Adonai, how countless are Your works! In wisdom You made them all— the earth is full of Your creatures.
- Psalms 147:5Great is our Lord and mighty in power— His understanding is infinite!
- Proverbs 3:19By wisdom Adonai founded the earth. By understanding He established the heavens.
- Jeremiah 10:12He made the earth by His power, established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out heaven by His understanding.
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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