Job 38:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, ”

• Job 38:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof - Referring to the garment in which the new-born infant is wrapped up. This image is one of great beauty. It is that of the vast ocean just coming into b...

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• Job 38:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a (g) swaddlingband for it, (g) As though the great sea was but as a little baby in the hands of God to turn to and fro.

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• Job 38:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Yahweh, speaking to Job out of the storm, challenges him to the contest, which he has so often demanded.

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• Job 38:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  thick darkness. Hebrew. 'araphel. See note on Job 3:6 .

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• Job 38:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, When I make the cloud the garment - Alluding to the cloth in which the new-born infant is first received. The clo...

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• Job 38:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, No JFB commentary on this verse.

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• Job 38:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22 . Job had challenged Go...

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• Job 38:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (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?...

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• Job 38:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof ,.... For this newborn babe, the sea; and thick darkness a swaddling band for it ; which was the case of the sea when it burst out of the bowels of the ea...

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• Job 38:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, Ver. 9. When I made the cloud the garment thereof ] When I clothed this new born child with a cloud, Elegans...

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• Job 38:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Who shut up the sea with doors? Who was it that set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up, as it were, with doors within its proper place, that it might not overflow the earth? When...

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• Job 38:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Creation of the World. B. C. 1520.       4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations o...

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• Job 38:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When I covered it with vapours and clouds which arise out of the sea. and by God's appointment hover above it, and cover it like a garment. Thick darkness, i. e. black and dark clouds, called dark...

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• Job 38:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 (...

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• Job 38:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation

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• Job 38:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Genesis 1:2

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• Job 38:9 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  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...

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• Job 38:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The cloud — When I covered it with vapours and clouds which rise out of the sea, and hover above it, and cover it like a garment. Darkness — Black and dark clouds. Swaddling band — Having compared...

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