Job 37:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? ”

• Job 37:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky? - That is, wert thou employed with God in performing that vast work, that thou canst explain how it was done? Elihu here speaks of the sky as it appears, an...

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• Job 37:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking (o) glass? (o) For the clearness.

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  sky . skies. looking glass . mirror.

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• Job 37:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? Hast thou with him spread out the sky - Wert thou with him when he made the expanse; fitted the weight to th...

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• Job 37:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass? With him - lik...

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  ( 18 ) Spread out the sky. — Some understand this of the action of the sun in dispersing the clouds; but it seems more probable that it refers to God. “Hast thou spread out with Him the magnifice...

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - 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 37:18 - 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 37:18 - 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 37:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky ?.... Wast thou concerned with him at the first spreading out of the sky? wast thou an assistant to him in it? did he not spread it as a curtain or canopy about...

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• Job 37:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hast thou with him spread out the sky, [which is] strong, [and] as a molten looking glass? Ver. 18. Hast thou with him spread out the sky ] He had convinced Job of his ignorance, and now he will o...

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• Job 37:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hast thou, with him, spread out the sky Wast thou his assistant in spreading out the sky, like a canopy, over the earth? Which is strong Which, though it be very thin and transparent, yet is also...

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - 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 37:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Wast thou his co-worker or assistant in spreading out the sky like a tent or canopy over the earth? or canst thou spread out such another sky? Then indeed thou mayst with some colour pretend to be pr...

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - 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 37:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hast thou with Him spread out the sky? The sky For beauty, for inspiration, for health and refreshment, for a sense of freedom and enlargement, is there anything like the sky when the earth doe...

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• Job 37:18 - 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 37:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Final Admonition Addressed to Job

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• Job 37:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Exodus 38:8 ; Genesis 1:6-8 ; Isaiah 40:12 ; Isaiah 40:22 ; Isaiah 44:24 ; Job 9:8 ; Job 9:9 ; Proverbs 8:27 ; Psalms 104:2 ; Psalms 148:4-6 ; Psalms 150:1

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• Job 37:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  With him — Wast thou his assistant in spreading out the sky like a canopy over the earth? Strong — Which though it be very thin and transparent, yet is also firm and compact and steadfast. Looking...

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