Job 38:36
Who placed discernment in the guts of man, or who gave the rooster intelligence?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
In Context
35Can you send forth lightning bolts, and will they go, and on returning, say to you: “Here we are?”
37Who can describe the rules of the heavens, or who can put to rest the harmony of heaven?
Cross References
Exodus 31:3and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge in every craft,
Job 9:4He is understanding in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted him and yet had peace?
Psalms 51:6You have loved all precipitous words, you deceitful tongue.
Ecclesiastes 2:26God has given, to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and rejoicing. But to the sinner, he has given affliction and needless worrying, so as to add, and to gather, and to deliver, to him who has pleased God. But this, too, is emptiness and a hollow worrying of the mind.
James 1:5But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →