the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Job 36:29
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Who can understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunder that rolls forth from heaven?
Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Yes, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
No one understands how God spreads out the clouds or how he sends thunder from where he lives.
Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the noise of his tabernacle?
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?
"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds Or the thundering of His pavilion?
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
If he wole stretche forthe cloudis as his tente,
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
Who can understand how God scatters the clouds and speaks from his home in the thunderstorm?
Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?
And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?
Can anyone fathom the spreading of the clouds, or the crashes that come from his canopy?
But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?
No one can understand how he spreads the clouds out or how the thunder rumbles from his home in the sky.
Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?
Also can any vnderstand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Can anyone understand how the clouds are spread out, or how He thunders from His tent?
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?
Who can understand these things, or the spreading of the clouds out of the greatness of his tabernacle?
No one knows how the clouds move or how the thunder roars through the sky, where God dwells.
But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,
Can any one understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Who can consider the spreadinges out of his cloudes, the coueringes of his tabernacle?
And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of his tabernacle;
Can anyone understand how the clouds spread outor how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?
Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, And the thunderings of his pavilion?
"Moreover, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, the thundering of his dwelling place?
Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, the crashing of His canopy?
Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?
He can sprede out the cloudes (a couerynge off his tabernacle)
"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?
Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?
Can anyone discern the spreading of the clouds,The thundering of His pavilion?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the spreadings: Job 37:16, Job 38:9, Job 38:37, 1 Kings 18:44, 1 Kings 18:45, Psalms 104:3
the noise: Job 37:2-5, Psalms 18:13, Psalms 29:3-10, Psalms 77:16-19, Psalms 104:7, Nahum 1:3, Habakkuk 3:10
Reciprocal: Job 26:8 - bindeth up Job 35:5 - the clouds Job 36:33 - noise
Cross-References
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
The children of Dishan are these; Uz, and Aran.
Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,
Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
And the sons of Seir; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Also can [any] understand the spreadings of the clouds,.... Or "of a cloud" l, a thick cloud, a single one; which sometimes at the beginning is very small, about the size of a man's hand,
1 Kings 18:44; and which in a little time spreads all over the heavens, and covers them with black clouds and darkness; none can understand, describe, and tell by what means so small a cloud at first appearance is spread to such a prodigious extent; and which is done partly for the use of God himself, to be a pavilion or tent around him,
Psalms 18:11; and partly for the use of men, either to let down ram on the several parts of the world, or to be a sort of an umbrella to men, to shelter them from scorching heat; nor can any understand how the clouds, stretched out to such a compass, are poised and balanced in the air, so as to retain their position as long as it is the pleasure of God; see Job 37:16. Ben Gersom, who is followed by others m, interprets this of the differences of the clouds, which are unaccountable, as to the form and colour of them being curious, and the matter which they contain or what issues from them; out of some rain, others hail, others snow and sleet, others wind, others thunder and lightning; and yet all arise from the same, even from vapours exhaled from the earth and sea; some become moist and cold, others hot and dry. As clouds are emblems of Gospel ministers, Isaiah 5:6; this may lead us to observe the different gifts of grace bestowed on them, and the different uses they are of; some are Boanergeses, sons of thunder, Mark 3:17; others Barnabases, sons of consolation, Acts 4:36; and the extent of the Gospel ministry all over the world, which first began as a small cloud over the land of Judea, and then was spread throughout the Gentile world;
[or] the noise of his tabernacle; the tabernacle of God, which are the clouds, which are laid as the flooring of his palace, and are drawn about him as a tent or pavilion, Psalms 104:3, where he sits invisible, and from whence, as a general of an army, he issues out his orders, and sends forth his artillery, rain, hail, snow, thunder, and lightning, and stormy wind fulfilling his word; the noise hereof is either the noise of the waters in the clouds, the sound of an abundance of rain, 1 Kings 18:41; or of the blustering winds, by which the clouds are moved and portend rain; or of the thunder that bursts out of them with a vehement noise, and which is usually followed with rain; and the thunder of his power who can understand? Job 26:14. This may be an emblem of the voice of God in his Gospel out of his tabernacle, the church, which the natural man understands not; or the voice of God in his providences, in which he speaks to men once and twice, and they perceive it not.
l ×¢× "nubis", Montanus, Tigurine version, Mercerus, Piscator, Schultens. m ××¤×¨×©× "differentias", Pagninus; "varietates", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? - The out spreading - the manner in which they expand themselves over us. The idea is, that the manner in which the clouds seem to âspread out,â or unfold themselves on the sky, could not be explained, and was a striking proof of the wisdom and power of God. In the early periods of the world, it could not be expected that the causes of these phenomena would be known. Now that the causes âareâ better known, however, they do not less indicate the wisdom and power of God, nor are these facts less fitted to excite our wonder. The simple and beautiful laws by which the clouds are suspended; by which they roll in the sky; by which they spread themselves out - as in a rising tempest, and by which they seem to unfold themselves over the heavens, should increase, rather than diminish, our conceptions of the wisdom and power of the Most High.
Or, the noise of his tabernacle - Referring, doubtless, to thunder. The clouds are represented as a tent or pavilion spread out for the dwelling of God (compare the notes at Isaiah 40:22), and the idea here is, that the noise made in a thunder-storm is in the unique dwelling of God. Herder well expresses it, âThe fearful thunderings in his tent,â compare Psalms 18:11 -
He made darkness his secret place,
His pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
The sense here is, who can understand and explain the cause of thunder? The object of Elihu in this is, to show how great and incomprehensible is God, and nature furnishes few more impressive illustrations of this than the crash of thunder.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 36:29. Can any understand the spreadings of the clouds — Though the vapour appear to be fortuitously raised, and subject, when suspended in the atmosphere, to innumerable accidents, to different winds and currents which might drive it all to the sandy deserts, or direct its course so that it should fall again into the great deep from which it has been exhaled, without watering and refreshing the earth; yet so does the good and wise providence of God manage this matter, that every part of the arable terrene surface receives an ample supply; and in every place, where requisite, it may be truly said that "The rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and water the earth, and cause it to bring forth and bud, that it may minister seed to the sower, and bread to the eater."
In Egypt, where there is little or no rain, the earth is watered by the annual inundation of the Nile; there, because this system of evaporation is not necessary, it does not exist. Who can account for this economy? How are these clouds so judiciously and effectually spread through the atmosphere, so as to supply the wants of the earth, of men, and of cattle? I ask, with Elihu, "Who can understand the spreadings of these clouds?" And I should like to see that volunteer in the solution of paradoxes who would step forward and say, I am the man.
The noise of his tabernacle? — By the tabernacle we may understand the whole firmament or atmospheric expansion; the place where the Almighty seems more particularly to dwell; whence he sends forth the rain of his strength, and the thunder of his power.
The noise must refer to the blowing of winds and tempests. or to the claps, peals, and rattling of thunder, by means of the electric fluid.
