Job 36

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:27

Having affirmed that God’s works are incomprehensibly great and glorious, he now enters upon the proof of it; and he proveth it from the most common and visible works of nature and providence, which if thoroughly considered, are full of wonder, and past the reach of the greatest philosophers, who indeed speak of them only by guess, and by their innumerable disputations about them discover their ignorance in them. And hence he leaves it to Job to consider how incomparably more deep and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:28

In such plenty as the necessities of the earth require; which also is a wonderful work of God. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:29

Of the clouds; or rather, of a cloud, as it is in the Hebrew; whence it comes to pass that a small cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand, doth suddenly spread over the whole heavens: how the clouds come to be suddenly gathered together, and so condensed as to bring forth thunder and lightning, which here follows. The noise of his tabernacle, i.e. the thunder produced in the clouds, which are oft called God’s tent or tabernacle, as Psalms 18:1; Psalms 104:3, because there he ofttimes seems to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:30

His light, i.e. the lightning; of which the whole context speaks, which is fitly called God’s light, as it is called God’s lightning, Psalms 144:6, because God only can light it. Upon it, i.e. upon the cloud, which is in a manner the candlestick in which God sets up this light. Covereth the bottom of the sea; the lightning spreads far and wide over all the parts of the sea, and pierceth deep, reaching even to the bottom of it, and spreading itself upon it, and so covering it like a gay and... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:31

By thunder and lightning he manifests his displeasure and executes his judgments against ungodly people or countries. He giveth meat in abundance; or, and (which conjunction is oft understood) he giveth meat, &c., i.e. by the selfsame clouds he punisheth wicked men by thunder and lightning, and provideth for others by those plentiful showers which accompany them. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:32

With clouds; with thick and black clouds spread over the whole heavens, as it is in times of great thunders and lightnings. Heb. With hands; either the clouds are so called for their resemblance to hands, 1 Kings 18:4,1 Kings 18:1, as being hollow and spread abroad; or the meaning is, that God covereth the light as it were by the hollow of his hand, as a man sometimes covers the light of a candle. The light; either the lightning, or rather the sun, which is fitly called light, Job 31:26; Psalms... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Job 36:33

The noise thereof, to wit. of or within the black or thick cloud, spoken of Job 36:32. Or, his, i.e. God’s, noise, to wit, the thunder, which is called God’s voice, Psalms 29:4,Psalms 29:5. Showeth concerning it, to wit, the rain, which is the principal subject of these verses, of which he speaketh expressly Job 36:27,Job 36:28; and of its companions, the clouds, and thunder and lightning, in all the following verses. The sense is, The thunder gives notice of the approaching rain. And as the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Job 36:1-33

ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECHNo reply being made to Elihu’s preceding address, he resumes. Job 36:1.—“Elihu also proceded and said”. His object to bring Job to a more becoming state of mind in reference to God’s dealings with him. Aims, like Job’s three friends, at showing that God is not to be charged with injustice by any of his creatures.I. His introduction (Job 36:2-4).1. Bespeaks Job’s farther patience and attention. Job 36:2.—“Suffer (wait for, or bear with) me a little, and I will show thee that... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 36:1-3

Job 36:1-3 The sinner's excuses answered. I. One excuse is that the Bible cannot be true because it represents God as unjust. It represents God as creating men and then condemning them for another's sin. To this the answer is: (1) The Bible always represents the sinner condemned as really sinning himself, and as condemned for his own sin. (2) Children are never punished punitively for their parents' sins. The evil that befalls them through their connection with their parents is always... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Job 36:2

Job 36:2 I. The wisdom put into the mouth of Elihu when the three friends had failed reminds us of what we are taught elsewhere in the Bible: that there are times when traditional authority must give way to truth, when he who is young may instruct those who are aged, when out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God has ordained that very strength which the world most needs. Each generation must learn not only from that which has gone before, but from that which is coming after, it. II. The... read more

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