Job 37:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. ”

Job 37:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By the breath of God frost is given - Not by the violent north wind, or by the whirlwind of the south, but God seems to “breathe” in a gentle manner, and the earth is covered with hoary frost. It...
Job 37:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters (g) is straitened. (g) That is, frozen up and dried.
Job 37:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes ( Job 37:3 ) then the thunder follows ( Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place...
Job 37:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

breath. Hebrew. neshamah. App-16.
Job 37:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. By the breath of God frost is given - The freezing of water, though it is generally allowed to be the effect of cold,...
Job 37:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

By the breath of God frost is given— By the breath of God he giveth ice, and he swelleth the waters by the thaw: Job 37:11 . Fair weather also disperseth the cloud; his sun scattereth the cloud...
Job 37:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Frost - rather, ice. The breath of God - poetically for the ice-producing north wind. Straitened - phy...
Job 37:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Speeches of Elihu (concluded) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29 . Sound] RM 'muttering.'
Job 37:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The breadth of the waters is straitened. — Firm, like a molten mass.
Job 37:10 - 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...
Job 37:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Light in the Clouds Job 37:1-24 As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened to the sound of Go...
Job 37:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings...
Job 37:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(8) Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. (9) Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (10) By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the wa...
Job 37:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

By the breath of God frost is given ,.... By the word of God, as the Targum; at his command it is, at his word it comes, and at his word it goes, Psalms 147:15 ; or by his will, as Ben Gersom inter...
Job 37:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. Ver. 10. By the breath of God frost is given ] Frost is the excess of cold by the blowing of the coldest winds, wh...
Job 37:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Out of the south Hebrew, מן החרד, min ha-chered: εκ ταμειων : de promptuariis, out of the store-houses , LXX.; ab interioribus, from the inner chambers , Vulgate Latin. The same with the chamb...
Job 37:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM (vv.1-5) As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His lightning spreads over the w...
Job 37:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work....
Job 37:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By the breath of God, i.e. by the word of God, as this very phrase is explained, Psalms 33:6 ; by his will or appointment, to which as the principal cause all these works are ascribed. The brea...
Job 37:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the Almighty was about to speak,...
Job 37:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 37:5 . God thundereth marvellously with his voice. See on Psalms 29 . This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime description of a storm. Job 37:22 . The golden splen...
Job 37:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hear attentively the noise of His voice. What is Elihu’s message What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as wel...
Job 37:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 37:1-18 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1-18 and Job 37:1-18 .—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. F...
Job 37:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Last Word on the Miracles in NatuRev. 1. At this, namely, the powerful exhibition of God's majesty, as just described, also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place, springing up, gi...
Job 37:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:29 ; Job 38:30 ; Psalms 147:16-18 ; Psalms 78:47
Job 37:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The waters — The waters which had freely spread themselves before, are congealed and bound up in crystal fetters.

Job 37:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 37:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 37:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 37:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 37:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 37:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 37:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 37:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 37:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 37:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 37:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 37:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 37:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 37:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 37:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 37:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 37:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 37:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 37:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 37:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 37:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 37:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 37:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes