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Job 37:3
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He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;his lightning to the ends of the earth.
He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the eretz.
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
He turns his lightning loose under the whole sky and sends it to the farthest parts of the earth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
"Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, And His lightning travels to the ends of the earth.
He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.
He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the world.
Under the whole heaven He lets it loose,And His lightning to the ends of the earth.
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
and when I see his lightning flash across the sky.
He sends it out under all of heaven, his lightning to the ends of the earth.
He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
He sends his lightning to flash across the whole sky. It lights up the earth from one end to the other.
Under the whole of heaven the people shall praise him, and his light shines upon the ends of the earth.
He sends the lightning across the sky, from one end of the earth to the other.
He lets it loose under all the heavens, and his lightning to the earth's corners.
He lets it loose under the whole heavens, and His lightning to the wings of the earth.
He gouerneth euery thinge vnder the heauen, and his light reacheth vnto the ende of the worlde.
He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and His lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Hee directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his lightning vnto the ends of the earth.
He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the worlde.
His dominion is under the whole heaven, and his light is at the extremities of the earth.
He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
He biholdith ouere alle heuenes; and his liyt is ouere the termes of erthe.
He sends it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
He sends it forth under the whole heaven, His lightning to the ends of the earth.
It rolls across the heavens, and his lightning flashes in every direction.
He lets it loose under the whole heaven. He lets His lightning go to the ends of the earth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it loose, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;
He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.
"Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, And His lightning to the ends of the earth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He: Psalms 77:13, Psalms 97:4, Matthew 24:27, Revelation 11:19
lightning: Heb. light
ends: Heb. wings, Job 38:13, Isaiah 11:12, *marg.
Reciprocal: Job 28:26 - a way Job 38:25 - General Psalms 29:7 - flames Luke 17:24 - as
Cross-References
Israel (Jacob) said to Joseph, "Are not your brothers pasturing [the flock] at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." And he said, "Here I am [ready to obey you]."
Then Jacob said to him, "Please go and see whether everything is all right with your brothers and all right with the flock; then bring word [back] to me." So he sent him from the Hebron Valley, and he went to Shechem.
"Now then, come and let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits (cisterns, underground water storage); then we will say [to our father], 'A wild animal killed and devoured him'; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!"
Reuben said to them, "Do not shed his blood, but [instead] throw him [alive] into the pit that is here in the wilderness, and do not lay a hand on him [to kill him]"—[he said this so] that he could rescue him from them and return him [safely] to his father.
Now when Joseph reached his brothers, they stripped him of his tunic, the [distinctive] multicolored tunic which he was wearing;
He rejoined his brothers and said, "The boy is not there; as for me, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?"
and they brought the multicolored tunic to their father, saying, "We have found this; please examine it and decide whether or not it is your son's tunic."
'Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A maiden (concubine) or two for every man; A spoil of dyed garments for Sisera, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Two pieces of dyed garments embroidered for the neck of the plunderer?'
Now Tamar was wearing a [long-sleeved] robe of various colors; for that is how the virgin daughters of the king dressed themselves in robes. Then Amnon's personal servant took her out and bolted the door behind her.
"You took some of your clothes and made for yourself [decorated] high places and shrines of various colors and prostituted yourself on them—things which should never have come about and taken place.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He directeth it under the whole heaven,.... His voice of thunder, which rolls from one end of the heaven to the other: he charges the clouds with it, and directs both it and them where they shall go and discharge; what tree, house, or man, it shall strike; and where the rain shall fall when the clouds burst: yet Pliny x atheistically calls thunder and lightning chance matters. Thus the ministers of the word, who are compared to clouds, Isaiah 5:6, are charged with it by the Lord: they are directed by him what they shall say, where they shall go and declare it, and he directs where it shall fall with power and weight; yea, he directs it into the very hearts of men, where it pierces and penetrates, and is a discerner and discoverer of their thoughts and intents;
and his lightning unto the ends of the earth: it cometh out of the east, and shineth to the west, Matthew 24:27; and swiftly move to the further parts of the earth: and such a direction, motion, and extent, has the Gospel had; the glorious light of it, comparable to lightning, it first broke forth in the east, where Christ, his forerunner and his disciples, first preached it, and Christian churches were formed; and from thence it spread into the western parts of the world, and before the destruction of Jerusalem it was preached unto all nations; it had a free course, ran, and was glorified; the sound of the voice of it went into all the earth, and the words and doctrines of the apostles unto the ends of the world.
x Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 43.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He directeth it under the whole heaven - It is under the control of God, and he directs it where he pleases. It is not confined to one spot, but seems to be complaining from every part of the heavens.
And his lightning - Margin, as in Hebrew âlight.â There can be no doubt that the lightning is intended.
Unto the ends of the earth - Margin, as in Hebrew âwings.â The word wings is given to the earth from the idea of its being spread out or expanded like the wings of a bird; compare Job 38:13; Ezekiel 7:2. The earth was spoken of as an expanse or plain that had corners or boundaries (see Isaiah 11:12, note; Isaiah 24:16, note; Isaiah 42:5, note), and the meaning here is, that God spread the lightning at pleasure over the whole of that vast expanse.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 37:3. He directeth it under the whole heaven — He directeth it (the lightning) under the whole heaven, in the twinkling of an eye from east to west; and its light-the reflection of the flash, not the lightning, unto the ends of the earth, so that a whole hemisphere seems to see it at the same instant.
