“ Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottomg of the sea. ”
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it - That is, upon his tabernacle or dwelling-place - the clouds. The allusion is to lightning, which flashes in a moment over the whole heavens. The image is...
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon (u) it, and covereth the (x) bottom of the sea. (u) Upon the cloud. (x) That men cannot come to the knowledge of the springs of it.
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...
bottom . roots or offspring, i.e. clouds.
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. He spreadeth his light upon it - Or, as Mr. Good translates, "He throweth forth from it his flash." These two verses may bo...
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. Light - lightning. It - His tabernacle. The light, in an instant spread over the vast mass of dark clouds, forms...
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.
His light appears to mean here the lightning which flashes forth from the cloud. And covereth the bottom of the sea. — Literally, it hath covered the roots of the sea: i.e., it, the lightning,...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it ,.... Upon his tabernacle; that is, upon the clouds, which are his tabernacle; either the light of the sun, whereby the clouds are dispersed and blotted out; a...
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. Ver. 30. Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it ] That is, his fair weather, clearing up the cloudy sky, as some expound...
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...
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"...
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...
His light, i.e. the lightning; of which the whole context speaks, which is fitly called God's light , as it is called God's lightning , Psalms 144:6 , because God only can light it. Upon it,...
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...
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...
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...
The Divine Justice as Supreme Power and Wisdom
Exodus 14:22 ; Exodus 14:28 ; Exodus 15:4 ; Exodus 15:5 ; Genesis 1:9 ; Job 38:25 ; Job 38:34 ; Job 38:35 ; Job 38:8-11 ; Luke 17:24 ; Psalms 104:5-9 ; Psalms 18:11-16
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...
Light — The lightning; fitly God's light, because God only can light it. It — Upon the cloud, which is in a manner the candlestick in which God sets up this light. The sea — The lightning spreads f...