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Job 37:15
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Do you know how God directs his cloudsor makes their lightning flash?
Do you know how God controls them, And causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?
"Do you know how God establishes and commands them, And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?
"Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His clouds to shine?
Do you know how God controls them, And causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Diddest thou knowe when God disposed them? & caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Do you know how God establishes them,And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
Do you know how God puts them in place, how he causes lightning to flash from his cloud?
Dost thou know how +God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?
Do you know how God controls the clouds? Do you know how he makes his lightning flash?
Do you know what God has ordained for them, and what causes the light of his clouds to shine?
Do you know how God gives the command and makes lightning flash from the clouds?
Do you know how God commands them and how he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?
Do you know when God placed them, and caused the lightning of His cloud to shine?
Art thou of coucel with God, when he doth these thinges? When he causeth the light to come forth of his cloudes?
Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?
Dost thou know how God enjoineth them, and causeth the lightning of His cloud to shine?
Doest thou knowe when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Didst thou know when God disposed them? & caused the light of his cloudes to shine?
We know that god has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.
Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, and causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Whethir thou woost, whanne God comaundide to the reynes, that tho schulen schewe the liyt of hise cloudis?
Do you know how God lays [his charge] on them, And causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Do you know when God dispatches them, And causes the light of His cloud to shine?
Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?
Do you know how God does them, and makes the lightning shine from His cloud?
Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Canst thou got to know of GOD'S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?
Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?
Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?
"Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Dost: Job 28:24-27, Job 34:13, Job 38:4-41, Psalms 119:90, Psalms 119:91, Isaiah 40:26
the light: Job 37:11, Job 36:30-32, Job 38:24, Job 38:25
Cross-References
Early the next morning Abraham gave Hagar an animal skin full of water and some bread. Then he put the boy on her shoulder and sent them away. They wandered around in the desert near Beersheba,
Meanwhile, Barak had been following Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. "The man you're looking for is inside," she said. "Come in and I'll show him to you." They went inside, and there was Sisera—dead and stretched out with a tent-peg through his skull.
Elisha told the enemy troops, "You've taken the wrong road and are in the wrong town. Follow me. I'll lead you to the man you're looking for." Elisha led them straight to the capital city of Samaria.
When Jesus turned and saw them, he asked, "What do you want?" They answered, "Rabbi, where do you live?" The Hebrew word "Rabbi" means "Teacher."
The disciples returned about this time and were surprised to find Jesus talking with a woman. But none of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.
Jesus again asked, "Who are you looking for?" "We are looking for Jesus from Nazareth," they answered.
Jesus asked her, "Why are you crying? Who are you looking for?" She thought he was the gardener and said, "Sir, if you have taken his body away, please tell me, so I can go and get him."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Dost thou know when God disposed them?.... The clouds, that part of the wondrous works of God he was speaking of; when he decreed concerning them that they should be, when he put into them and stored them with rain, hail, snow, c. disposed of them here and there in the heavens, and gave them orders to fall on this and the other spot of ground wast thou present at all this, and knew what God was doing secretly in the clouds, and before heard what would break out of them, or fall from them? and if thou art ignorant of these things, canst thou imagine that thou shouldest be made acquainted with the secret springs of God's providential dealings with the children of men?
and caused the light of his cloud to shine; either the lightning to break through the cloud, or rather the light of the sun to shine upon his cloud, prepared to receive the light reflected on it, and form the rainbow; which, as it is called his bow, the cloud in which it is may be called his cloud; which is one of the wondrous works of God, and is called by the Heathens the daughter of wonder u; formed in a semicircle, with various colours, and as a token that God will drown the earth no more; an emblem of the covenant of peace, and of Jesus Christ, said to be clothed with a cloud, and with a rainbow about his head, Revelation 10:1.
u Apollodorus, l. 1. p. 5.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Dost thou know when God disposed them? - That is, the winds, the clouds, the cold, the snow, the sky, etc. The question refers to the manner in which God arranges and governs them, rather than to the time when it was done. So the Hebrew implies, and so the connection demands. The question was not whether Job knew “when” all this was done, but whether he could explain “how” it was that God thus arranged and ordered the things referred to. Elihu asks him whether he could explain the manner in which the balancings of the clouds were preserved; in which the lightnings were directed; in which his garments were warm, and in which God had made and sustained the sky? The Septuagint renders this, “We know that God hath disposed his works that he hath made light out of darkness.”
And caused the light of his cloud to shine - That is, Canst thou explain the cause of lightning? Canst thou tell how it is that it seems to break out of a dark cloud? Where has it been concealed? And by what laws is it now brought forth? Elihu assumes that all this was done by the agency of God, and since, as he assumes to be true, it was impossible for people to explain the manner in which it was done, his object is to show that profound veneration should be shown for a God who works in this manner. Somewhat more is known now of the laws by which lightning is produced than there was in the time of Job; but the question may still be asked of man, and is as much fitted to produce awe and veneration as it was then, whether he understands the way in which God produces the bright lightning from the dark bosom of a cloud. Can he tell what is the exact agency of the Most High in it? Can he explain all the laws by which it is done?
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 37:15. Dost thou know when God disposed them — Dost thou know the laws by which they are governed; and the causes which produce such and such phenomena?
And caused the light of his cloud to shine? — Almost every critic of note understands this of the rainbow, which God gave as a sign that the earth should no more be destroyed by water. See Genesis 9:13, and the note there.
