Job 36

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:27

27. Maketh small Rather, draweth up; exhaleth ( Dr. Clarke) through the process of evaporation. According to the vapour thereof Through his vapour-cloud, (Furst,) or from its vapour, (Gesenius,) which Dr. T. Lewis renders in place of mist, in allusion to Genesis 2:6. Science still uses the same term “vapour-cloud” to designate the mysterious birthplace of the rain. The ancients looked upon rain not only as coming from their deity, ( Aratus,) but as the special gift of God. ( ... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:29

29. The spreadings of the cloud The unfolding of the cloud (thundercloud) along the sky, as in 1 Kings 18:44-45, where the swiftness with which the cloud spreads itself is, according to Maurer, compared to the movement of a hand “hither and thither.” For a like rendering of פרשׂ , “spread,” compare Psalms 105:39; Ezekiel 27:7. See note on Job 37:16. The noise Literally, “loud crashing” of thunder, which the poet represents as the crash of His tabernacle. The lofty imagination of Elihu... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:30

30. Light upon it More properly, light around himself. Covereth the bottom of the sea Covereth (himself) with the roots of the sea. Others read as in the text of Authorized Version. Job had spoken also of the roots of the mountains, (Job 28:9,) and even of the roots of the human foot, (Job 13:27.) The sublime thought of the text weaves together celestial light and ocean depth to form fit garment for the Almighty. An old Orphic hymn has a like expression: Thou who holdest the roots... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:31

31. By them (the lightning and the cloud) He ruleth the nations. The verse is parenthetical. The lightning is his sceptre, the fertilizing cloud his storehouse of food. With the one he smites, with the other he blesses. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:32

32. With clouds… betwixt Both hands he covereth over with light, and giveth it command against the adversary. According to Delitzsch, God appears here under a military figure as a slinger of lightnings, ( light.) The lightning, like a slinger’s cord, he wraps around his hand that he may give it greater force against the enemy. “It scorches the world, but does not hurt him [God]; nay, rather, is the vesture and instrument of his power.” Wordsworth. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:33

33. The noise thereof… the vapour This is one of the most difficult passages in the Bible, on account of the ambiguity of every important word. Of the discordant readings, that of Ewald is now generally accepted: “His thunder announces Him; the cattle even, that he is approaching;” literally, on the march. Some see in the allusion to cattle the instinctive apprehension which the brute manifests at the approach of a storm, as both Virgil and Pliny had observed, ( Georg., 1:374; Nat.... read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:27

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:29

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:30

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:31

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:32

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Job 36:33

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