Job 37:15

15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?

Job 37:15 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
English Standard Version (ESV)
15 Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
New Living Translation (NLT)
15 Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?
The Message Bible (MSG)
15 Do you have any idea how God does it all, how he makes bright lightning from dark storms,
American Standard Version (ASV)
15 Dost thou know how God layeth [his charge] upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
15 Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
15 Do you know how God directs His clouds or makes their lightning flash?
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
15 Do you know how he controls the clouds? Do you understand how he makes his lightning flash?

Job 37:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 37:15

Dost thou know when God disposed them?
&c.] 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 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 F21; 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 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F21 Apollodorus, l. 1. p. 5.

Job 37:15 In-Context

13 He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.
14 “Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God’s wonders.
15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?
17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

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