Job 37:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. ”

• Job 37:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And it is turned round about - The word here rendered “it” ( הוא hû' ) may refer either to the “cloud,” and then it will mean that it is driven about at the pleasure of God; or it may refer to...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  world . vast expanse, or the habitable world. Hebrew. tebel .

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• Job 37:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. And it is turned round about by his counsels - The original is di...

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• Job 37:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: How the thunder-clouds are dispersed, or else employed by God either for correction or mercy. By watering - by...

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• Job 37:12 - 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.'

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• Job 37:12 - 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 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And it is turned round about by his counsels ,.... The cloud is, and that by the wind, which is turned about to all points of the compass, according to the will of God; by the counsels of him who si...

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• Job 37:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. Ver. 12. And it is turned round about by his counsels ] Verti...

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• Job 37:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Also by watering The earth; by causing the clouds first to receive, and then to convey to distant parts, and afterward to pour forth, abundance of water; he wearieth the thick clouds Alluding to...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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....

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• Job 37:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It is turned round about; the clouds (now mentioned) are carried about to this or that place. By his counsels; not by chance, (though nothing seems to be more casual and uncertain than the motion...

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• Job 37:12 - 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,...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - 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...

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• Job 37:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 4:7 ; James 5:17 ; James 5:18 ; Jeremiah 14:22 ; Joel 2:23 ; Psalms 104:24 ; Psalms 148:8 ; Psalms 65:10 ; Psalms 65:9 ; Revelation 11:6

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• Job 37:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Turned — The clouds are carried about to this or that place. Not by chance (though nothing seems to be more casual than the motions of the clouds) but by his order and governance.

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