Job 37:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. ”

• Job 37:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds - Either the lightning that plays on the clouds in an approaching tempest, or a glorious light spread over the sky on the approach of G...

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• Job 37:21 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And now [men] see not the bright light (s) which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. (s) The cloud stops the shining of the sun, that man cannot see it till the wind has ch...

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• Job 37:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  How can he, whose mind is dark, address God? Shall I invite Him to converse and court destruction? ( Job 37:19 f.). In Job 37:21 follow mg. And now men cannot look on the light when it is bright...

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• Job 37:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  wind. Hebrew. ruach. App-9.

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• Job 37:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. And now men see not the bright light - Mr. Good gives the sense clearer: - "Even now we ca...

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• Job 37:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. Cleanseth - i:e., cleareth the air of clouds. When the "light" of the sun (the same Hebr...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  And now men see not the bright light — i.e., the sun. “But he is bright behind the clouds, and when the wind has passed over them and cleared them away, even the north wind, he will come forth li...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - 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 37:21 - 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 37:21 - 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 37:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And now men see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds ,.... Here Elihu returns to his subject, it may be, occasioned by black clouds gathering in the heavens, as a preparation for the whirlw...

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• Job 37:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And now [men] see not the bright light which [is] in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them. Ver. 21. And now men see not the bright light that is in the clouds ] It seemeth, saith a...

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• Job 37:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And now Or, for now, as the particle ו, vau , is often rendered; the following words containing a reason of those which precede; men see not the bright light , &c. Men are not able to look up...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.   22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.   23...

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• Job 37:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And; or, for , as this particle is oft rendered; the following words containing a reason of those which go before. Now: this particle is either, 1. A note of time, and so it intimates a sudden...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 37:21 I. We live under a cloud, and see God's way only by a dim light. As beings of intelligence, we find ourselves hedged in by mystery on every side. All our seeming knowledge is skirted, cl...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Teach us what we shall say unto Him. Man and God I. Suggestions concerning man. 1. The sublimest act, speaking to God. “Teach us what we shall say unto Him; for we cannot order our speech by...

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• Job 37:21 - 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 37:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Final Admonition Addressed to Job

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• Job 37:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Job 26:9 ; Job 36:32 ; Job 38:25

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• Job 37:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Light — The sun; which is emphatically called light, and here the bright light: which men cannot behold or gaze on, when the sky is very clear: and therefore it is not strange if we cannot see God,...

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