Job 37:9-19

9 Del mediodía viene el torbellino, y de los vientos del norte el frío.

10 Por el soplo de Dios se da el hielo, y las anchas aguas son constreñidas.

11 Además de esto con la claridad fatiga las nubes, y las esparce con su luz.

12 Y ellas se revuelven en derredor por sus designios, para hacer sobre la faz del mundo, en la tierra, lo que él les mandó.

13 Unas veces por azote, otras por causa de su tierra, otras por misericordia las hará aparecer.

14 Escucha esto, Job: Repósate, y considera las maravillas de Dios.

15 ¿Supiste tú por ventura, cuando Dios las ponía en concierto, y hacía levantar la luz de su nube?

16 ¿Has conocido tú por ventura las diferencias de las nubes, las maravillas del Perfecto en sabiduría?

17 ¿Y eran calientes tus vestidos cuando él daba el reposo a la tierra del mediodía?

18 ¿Extendiste tú por ventura con él los cielos firmes como un espejo firme?

19 Muéstranos, qué le hemos de decir; para que no hablemos disparates.

Job 37:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 37

Elihu in this chapter proceeds to show the greatness of God as it appears in other of his works of nature, which greatly affected him, and to an attention to which he exhorts others, Job 37:1,2; particularly thunder and lightning, the direction, extent, and order of which he observes, Job 37:3,4; and then suggests that besides these there are other great things done by him, incomprehensible and unknown in various respects; as the snow, and rain, lesser and greater, which come on the earth at his command, and have such effect on men as to seal up their hands, and on the beasts of the field as to cause them to retire to their dens, and there remain, Job 37:5-8; and then he goes on to take notice of wind, and frost, and the clouds, and dispersion of them; their use and ends, whether in judgment or mercy, Job 37:9-13; and then calls on Job to consider these wondrous works of God, and remark how ignorant men are of the disposition of clouds for the rainbow; of the balancing of them; of the heat and quietness that come by the south wind, and of the firmness of the sky, Job 37:14-21; and from all this he concludes the terrible majesty, unsearchable nature of God, the excellency of his power and justice; and that men therefore should and do fear him, who is no respecter of persons, Job 37:21-23.