“ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. ”
Hearken unto this, O Job - That is, to the lesson which such events are fitted to convey respecting God. Stand still - In a posture of reverence and attention. The object is to secure a calm...
Job is invited to consider God's wonders. Does he know how God lays His charge upon them, i.e. probably the phenomena just described by Elihu in Job 37:1-13 ? Does he understand the flashing of th...
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Hearken unto this - Hear what I say on the part of God. Stand still - Enter into deep contemplation on the subject. And...
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. ( Psalms 111:2 .)
The Speeches of Elihu (concluded) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29 . Sound] RM 'muttering.'
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...
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...
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...
(14) В¶ Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. (15) Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? (16) Dost thou know the...
Hearken unto this, O Job ,.... Either to the present clap of thunder then heard; or rather to what Elihu had last said concerning clouds of rain coming for correction or mercy; and improve it and ap...
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. Ver. 14. Hearken unto this, O Job ] Here Elihu by little and little draweth to a most wise conclusion, bringing Job t...
Hearken unto this, O Job , &c. Listen diligently unto these things; do not dispute any more with God, but silently consider these his wonderful works, and think, if there be so much matter of wo...
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...
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 16 Dost thou know t...
If there be so much matter of wonder and adoration in the most obvious and sensible works of God, how wonderful must his deep and secret counsels and judgments be! And therefore it would better becom...
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 37:5 . 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...
Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. God’s wondrous working The teaching of Scripture, both in the Old Testament and in the New, impresses upon us a re...
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...
Hearken unto this, O Job: Stand still, spending some time in contemplation of the miracles just set forth by Elihu, and consider the wondrous works of God.
Exodus 14:13 ; Habakkuk 2:20 ; Job 26:6-14 ; Job 36:24 ; Psalms 111:2 ; Psalms 145:10-12 ; Psalms 145:5 ; Psalms 145:6 ; Psalms 46:10
Consider — If there be so much matter of wonder in the most obvious works of God, how wonderful must his secret counsels be?