Genesis 7:11; Genesis 7:12; Job 37:11-13; Proverbs 3:20
Upon man abundantly - That is, upon many people. The clouds having received the ascending vapor, retain it, and pour it down copiously for the us...
God draws up the water-drops and lets them fall in rain. Who can understand the distribution of the clouds, the thunders which fill the cloud where H...
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Which the clouds do drop - In proportion to the evaporation will be the clouds or masses o...
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: The marvelous formation of rain (so Job 5:9-10 ;...
The Speeches of Elihu (continued) 1-15. Elihu maintains the wisdom and impartial justice of the rule of God. His purpose is to discipline and impr...
The Work Begun. The Liberality of the People Cp. 1 Chronicles 29:6-9 ; Ezra 2:68-70 ; Nehemiah 7:70-72 . 8-38. The construction of the Taber...
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 ascribe...
He Despiseth not Any Job 36:1-33 God is mighty, but He does not despise thee, though thou be the least of saints. His eyes are upon thee for go...
After answering the arguments of Job, as expressed in the quotations, there would seem to have been a pause. Then Elihu commenced his last address....
(22) Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him? (23) Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity? (24) В...
Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. Not upon the persons of men, which they take care as much as possible to shun and avoid,...
Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. Ver. 28. Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly ] Hence the Dutch call...
For he maketh small , &c. Having affirmed that God's works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now proves it from the most common works...
SPEAKING ON GOD'S BEHALF (vv.1-4) Elihu continues in the same strain, for as he says, there is much more to be said on God's behalf. Where did E...
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26 Behold, God is grea...
In such plenty as the necessities of the earth require; which also is a wonderful work of God.
ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH No reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1 .—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to br...
Job 36:3 . I will fetch my knowledge from afar; from the expanse of heaven, and from the remotest traditions of the sires. Natural theology is ver...
EXPOSITION Job 36:1-18 The two chapters, Job 36:1-18 ; Job 37:1-18 , form a single discourse, and ought not to have been separated; or, a...
The Divine Justice as Supreme Power and Wisdom
which the clouds do drop, namely, those coming up in a thick mass, as in the case of a thunder-shower, and distil upon man abundantly.
High Altitudes in Elihu's Answer to Job Job 32:1-22 , Job 33:1-33 ; Job 34:1-37 ; Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We now...
28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.