Job 36:29 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? ”

• Job 36:29 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Also, 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 o...

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• Job 36:29 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his (t) tabernacle? (t) Meaning, of the clouds, which he calls the tabernacle of God.

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• Job 36:29 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  God draws up the water-drops and lets them fall in rain. Who can understand the distribution of the clouds, the thunders which fill the cloud where He dwells? ( cf. Psalms 18:11 ). He is surrounded...

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• Job 36:29 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  can any... ? Figure of speech Er otesis. App-6. spreadings . suspensions, or floatings. tabernacle . booth. Hebrew. sukkah.

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• Job 36:29 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds - Though the vapor appear to be fortuitously raised, and subj...

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• Job 36:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Also, can any understand, &c.— How much more when he manifesteth the burstings of the clouds; the crash of the thunder of his pavilion! Job 36:30 . See his lightning flasheth around him! he...

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• Job 36:29 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Spreadings ... - the canopy of thick clouds which covers the heavens in a storm ( Psalms 105:39 ). The...

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• Job 36:29 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and improve men, even by their afflictions.

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• Job 36:29 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The spreading of the clouds — i.e. , how the clouds are spread over the heavens, and heaped up one upon the other like mountains in the skies when the storm gathers. Or the noise of His tabernac...

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• Job 36:29 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he shou...

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• Job 36:29 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  He Despiseth not Any Job 36:1-33 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for good, and He will set thee before His throne forever...

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• Job 36:29 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address. He first appealed to Job to hear him, as he was ab...

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• Job 36:29 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В¶ Remember that thou magnify his work, which men b...

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• Job 36:29 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds ,.... Or "of a cloud" l, a thick cloud, a single one; which sometimes at the beginning is very small, about the size of a man's hand, 1 Kings...

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• Job 36:29 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle? Ver. 29. Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds ] That is, the skill that God showeth in spre...

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• Job 36:29 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? Hebrew, of a cloud: whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, suddenly spreads over the whole heavens: how the clou...

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• Job 36:29 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar"...

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• Job 36:29 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.   25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.   26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number o...

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• Job 36:29 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of the clouds; or rather, of a cloud , as it is in the Hebrew; whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, doth suddenly spread over the whole heavens: how the clouds...

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• Job 36:29 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1 .—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in refere...

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• Job 36:29 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 36:3 . I will fetch my knowledge from afar; from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is very instructive to man, to acquaint us with the perf...

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• Job 36:29 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 36:1-18 The two chapters, Job 36:1-18 ; Job 37:1-18 , form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, at any rate, not so unskilfully as they are, in the...

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• Job 36:29 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Divine Justice as Supreme Power and Wisdom

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• Job 36:29 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 18:44 ; 1 Kings 18:45 ; Habakkuk 3:10 ; Job 37:16 ; Job 37:2-5 ; Job 38:37 ; Job 38:9 ; Nahum 1:3 ; Psalms 104:3 ; Psalms 104:7 ; Psalms 18:13 ; Psalms 29:3-10 ; Psalms 77:16-19...

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• Job 36:29 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  High Altitudes in Elihu's Answer to Job Job 32:1-22 , Job 33:1-33 ; Job 34:1-37 ; Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now come to that part of the Book of Job which present...

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• Job 36:29 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Understand — Whence it comes to pass, that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, suddenly spreads over the whole heavens: how the clouds come to be suddenly gathered, and so condensed as to b...

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