Job 37:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? ”

• Job 37:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? - That is, Dost thou know how the clouds are poised and suspended in the air? The difficulty to be explained was, that the clouds, so full of water, d...

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• Job 37:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Dost thou know the (m) balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? (m) Which is sometimes changed into rain, or snow, hail or such like.

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• Job 37:16 - 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...

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• Job 37:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  clouds . thick clouds.

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• Job 37:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds - How are the clouds suspended in the atmosphere? Art...

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• Job 37:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, &c.— Art thou acquainted with the balance of the atmosphere, the wonders of perfect wisdom? Heath.

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• Job 37:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? Hebrew, 'Hast thou understanding of the balancings,' etc., how the clouds are poised in th...

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• Job 37:16 - 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 37:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The balancings of the clouds. — How they are poised and suspended in the sky. “Ye clouds, that far above me float and pause.” — Coleridge.

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• Job 37:16 - 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 37:16 - 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 37:16 - 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 37:16 - 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...

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• Job 37:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds ?.... How those ponderous bodies, as some of them are very weighty, full of water, are poised, and hang in the air, without turning this way or the other,...

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• Job 37:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? Ver. 16. Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? ] i.e. How they are hung up even in th...

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• Job 37:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? How God doth, as it were, weigh the clouds in balances; so that, although they are full of water, and heavy, yet they are by his power suspended in the...

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• Job 37:16 - 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 37:16 - 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...

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• Job 37:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The balancings; how God doth as it were weigh and suspend the clouds in balances; so that although they are ponderous and flail of water, yet they are by his power kept up in the thin air from fall...

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• Job 37:16 - 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 37:16 - 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 37:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? Clouds Note, in the address of Elihu, his close observation of God’s works in nature, and the admirable use he makes of them. I. The fact in natu...

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• Job 37:16 - 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 37:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Final Admonition Addressed to Job

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• Job 37:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Isaiah 40:22 ; Jeremiah 10:12 ; Jeremiah 10:13 ; Job 26:8 ; Job 36:29 ; Job 36:4 ; Proverbs 3:19 ; Proverbs 3:20 ; Psalms 104:2 ; Psalms 104:24 ; Psalms 104:3 ; Psalms 147:5

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• Job 37:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Balancings — How God doth as it were weigh the clouds in balances, so that although they are full of water, yet they are kept up by the thin air.

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