Job 37:16

16 Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?

Job 37:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 37:16

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?
&c.] How those ponderous bodies, as some of them are very weighty, full of water, are poised, and hang in the air, without turning this way or the other, or falling on the earth;

the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge;
of God, who is a God of knowledge, of knowledges, ( 1 Samuel 2:3 ) ; who knows himself and all his works, all creatures and things whatever, see ( Job 36:4 ) ; and this is another of his wondrous works, which none but he, whose knowledge is perfect, and is the author and giver of knowledge, can know, even the poising and balancing of the clouds in the air; we see they are balanced, but we know not how it is done.

Job 37:16 In-Context

14 "Hear this, Job; stand [still] and consider carefully God's wondrous works.
15 Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?
16 Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?
17 [You] whose garments [are] hot, when [the] earth is being still because of [the] south wind,
18 with him can you spread out [the] skies, hard as a molten mirror?

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "[the] marvelous works of perfect knowledge"
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