Job 37:11

11 Lightning flashes from the clouds,

Job 37:11 Meaning and Commentary

Job 37:11

Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud
By filling it with a multitude of water, it is as it were loaded and made weary with it; and especially by sending it about thus loaded from place to place before discharged, when it becomes as a weary traveller; and then by letting down the water in it, whereby it spends itself like one that is weary; an emblem of ministers that spend and are spent for the good of men: some render it by serenity or fair weather, and so Mr. Broughton,

``by clearness he wearieth the thick vapours;''

by causing a clear sky he dispels them;

he scattereth his bright cloud;
thin light clouds that have nothing in them, and are soon dispersed and come to nothing, and are seen no more; all emblem of such as are clouds without water, ( Jude 1:12 ) ; see ( Zechariah 11:17 ) ; or "he scatters the cloud by his light" F19; by the sun, which dispels clouds and makes a clear sky; an emblem of the blotting out and forgiveness of sins, and of restoring the manifestations of divine love, and the joys of salvation; see ( Isaiah 44:22 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F19 (wrwa Nne Uypy) "dispellit nubem luce sua", Munster.

Job 37:11 In-Context

9 The storm winds come from the south, and the biting cold from the north.
10 The breath of God freezes the waters, and turns them to solid ice.
11 Lightning flashes from the clouds,
12 as they move at God's will. They do all that God commands, everywhere throughout the world.
13 God sends rain to water the earth; he may send it to punish us, or to show us his favor.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. [Verse 11 in Hebrew is unclear.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.