“ Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stayh the bottles of heaven, ”
Who can number the clouds? - The word here rendered “clouds” ( שׁחקים shachaqiym ) is applied to the clouds as made up of “small particles” - as if they were composed of fine dust, and hence, t...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the (y) bottles of heaven, (y) That is, the clouds in which the water is contained as in bottles.
The Wonders of the Inanimate Creation. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, Who can number the clouds - Perhaps the word ספר saphar, which is commonly rendered to number, may here mean, as in Arabic,...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, Who appoints by his wisdom the due me...
The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to forc...
Who can stay the bottles of heaven? — This is understood in two opposite senses — of pouring out the bottles or of laying them up in store. It is not easy to decide which is most in accordance with...
XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...
What Man Cannot Do Job 38:19-41 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4-7 ; the sea, Job 38:8-11 ; light, Job 38:12-15 ;...
Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...
(4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom ?.... Or has such wisdom as to be able to count them when the heavens are full of them; hence they are used to denote a great multitude, Isaiah 55:8 ; or "declar...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, Ver. 37. Who can number the clouds in wisdom? ] Quis sapphirinas efficit nubes? Who can make the clouds like sapphir...
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? Who can wisely search, and exactly find out, the number of the clouds? which are indeed numberless, and filled with water as the next clause implies. Or who ca...
Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. B. C. 1520. 25 Who hath divided a watercourse f...
Who can wisely search out and exactly find the number of the clouds? They are numberless, and filled with water, as the next clause implies. Who can stay the bottles of heaven, to wit, the clouds?...
JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...
Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...
CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...
God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth
Genesis 15:5 ; Genesis 8:1 ; Genesis 9:15 ; Psalms 147:4
God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...