Job 36

Geneva Study Bible - Job 36:29

36:29 Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his {t} tabernacle?(t) Meaning, of the clouds, which he calls the tabernacle of God. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 36:30

36:30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon {u} it, and covereth the {x} bottom of the sea.(u) Upon the cloud.(x) That men cannot come to the knowledge of the springs of it. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 36:31

36:31 For by them judgeth he {y} the people; he giveth meat in abundance.(y) He shows that the rain has a double use: the one that it declares God’s judgments, when it overflows any places, and the other that it makes the land fruitful. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 36:32

36:32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it [not to shine] by [the cloud] that cometh {z} betwixt.(z) That is, one cloud to dash against another. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 36:33

36:33 {a} The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.(a) The cold vapour shows him: that is, the cloud of the hot exhalation, which being taken in the cold cloud mounts up toward the place where the fire is, and so anger is engendered; that is, noise and thunderclaps. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:1-33

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 Elihu find his knowledge? He fetched it "from afar" (v.3), which would remind us that the Lord Jesus brought the knowledge of God from heaven itself, far above man's ability to produce wisdom. He would ascribe righteousness to his Maker. Job had not done this. Elihu insists that his words are not false, and that One who is perfect in knowledge was... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 36:1-33

WORDS OF ELIHU ; WORDS OF GOD Elihu now comes forward with apparent modesty, and yet great pretensions. Young and inexperienced, he is nevertheless indignant at the manner in which the friends of Job have sought to reply to him. Professing that his views have been revealed from above, he undertakes to clear up all the difficulties in the case. Afflictions are for the good of the sufferer is his dictum, a thought which he exhibits in various lights. He, too, reflects upon Job for his... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 36:1-33

The Speech of Elihu. IV. Job 35-37 Elihu says many beautiful things. There is some difficulty in tracing the uniting line of his numerous remarks, but the remarks themselves often glitter with a really beautiful light. Many of the independent sayings are like single jewels. We need not always look for the thread upon which the pearls are strung: sometimes it is enough to see the separate pearls themselves, to admire, to value, and spiritually to appropriate all their helpful suggestion.... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 36:26

The Unknowable God Job 36:26 God Unknown, Unknowable; even so, yet not the less the one Reality, and the one Energy of the universe. What it is possible to know it must be possible to explain, to put into an equal number of words, which, being all set together, sum themselves into the exact measure of the thing that is known. What can be known can of course be contained by the faculty which knows it. The vessel is of necessity larger than its contents. It, then, any faculty of mine knows... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 36:1

CONTENTS Elihu still prosecuteth his discourse. He gives a better and a more proper reason than Job's friends did, concerning the cause of affliction, and shows, that it is by such providences that the Lord exerciseth his people. read more

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