“ Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. ”
Then the beasts go into dens - In the winter. This fact appears to have been early observed, that in the season of cold the wild animals withdrew into caves, and that many of them became torpid....
Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes ( Job 37:3 ) then the thunder follows ( Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place...
places . lurking-places, or lairs.
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. Remain - rest in their lairs, It is beautifully ordered that, during the cold, when they could not obtain food, many lie torpid-a sta...
The Speeches of Elihu (concluded) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29 . Sound] RM 'muttering.'
Then the beasts go into dens. — And not man only, but the beasts likewise, have to take refuge in their dens and coverts.
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...
(8) Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. (9) Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (10) By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the wa...
Then the beasts go into dens ,.... When snow and rains are on the earth in great abundance, then the wild beasts of the field, not being able to prowl about, betake themselves to dens; where they li...
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. Ver. 8. Then the beasts go into dens ] In rainy and snowy weather, the very wild beasts (as lively and lusty as they are, whence also they...
He saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth By his powerful will the snow is formed in the air, and falls upon the earth where and when he sees fit. And the great rain of his strength Those storms...
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...
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work....
Then, in great rains or deep snows, the beasts go into dens for shelter and comfort.
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...
Hear attentively the noise of His voice. What is Elihu’s message What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as wel...
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...
The Last Word on the Miracles in NatuRev. 1. At this, namely, the powerful exhibition of God's majesty, as just described, also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place, springing up, gi...
Psalms 104:22