Job 36:32
He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
In Context
31For by these he judges the peoples. he gives food in abundance.
33The noise of it tells concerning him. The cattle also concerning [the storm] that comes up.
Cross References
Job 26:9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
Job 37:15Do thou know how God lays [his charge] upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Psalms 18:11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
Psalms 135:7who causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries,
Psalms 148:8fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,
Matthew Henry on Job 36:25-33
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the… Read the whole commentary →