Job 36:29,30 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? Hebrew, of a cloud: whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man's hand, suddenly spreads over the whole heavens: how the clouds come to be suddenly gathered and so condensed as to bring forth thunder and lightning. Or the noise of his tabernacle The thunder produced in the clouds, which are often called God's tent or tabernacle. Behold, he spreadeth his light That is, the lightning, fitly called God's light, because God only can light it; upon it That is, upon the cloud, which is, in a manner, the candlestick in which God sets up this light; and covereth the bottom of the sea The lightning spreads far and wide over all parts of the sea, and pierceth deep, reaching even to the bottom of it.

Job 36:29-30

29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottomg of the sea.