Job 37:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? ”

Job 37:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them? - That is, the winds, the clouds, the cold, the snow, the sky, etc. The question refers to the manner in which God arranges and governs them, rather than to...
Job 37:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the (l) light of his cloud to shine? (l) That is, the lightning to break forth in the clouds?
Job 37:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Job 37:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? Dost thou know when God disposed them - Dost thou know the laws by which they are governed; and the causes which pro...
Job 37:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them— Dost thou know when God fixed his curb upon them, and caused, &c.? See Schultens and Heath. This passage is by Grotius, and many other learned commentat...
Job 37:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? When - rather, how. Disposed them - lays His charge on х bªsuwm ( H7760 ) `al ( H5921 )] these w...
Job 37:15 - 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 37:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Light of His cloud — i.e., lightning, as before. “Dost thou know all the secrets of God’s thunderbolts, at whom and how He will use them?” Some understand this otherwise: “Dost thou know when God...
Job 37:15 - 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 37:15 - 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 37:15 - 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 37:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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...
Job 37:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Dost thou know when God disposed them ?.... The clouds, that part of the wondrous works of God he was speaking of; when he decreed concerning them that they should be, when he put into them and stor...
Job 37:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? Ver. 15. Dost thou know when God disposed them ] viz. Those wondrous works of God in the air especially; those va...
Job 37:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Job 37:15 - 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 37:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Job 37:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

When God disposed them, to wit, the things before mentioned, the clouds, rain, snow, thunder and lightning, and other meteors. Did God ask counsel from thee to acquaint thee with his counsels in th...
Job 37:15 - 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 37:15 - 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 37:15 - 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 37:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Final Admonition Addressed to Job
Job 37:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 40:26 ; Job 28:24-27 ; Job 34:13 ; Job 36:30-32 ; Job 37:11 ; Job 38:24 ; Job 38:25 ; Job 38:4-41 ; Psalms 119:90 ; Psalms 119:91
Job 37:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Them — The things before mentioned, the clouds, rain, snow, and other meteors. Did God acquaint thee with his counsels in the producing and ordering of them? His cloud — Probably the rainbow, seate...

Job 37:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 37:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 37:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 37:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 37:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 37:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 37:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 37:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 37:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 37:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 37:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 37:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 37:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 37:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 37:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 37:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 37:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 37:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 37:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 37:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 37:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 37:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes