Job 36:32
It is as though he holds the lightning in his hands, and then he commands it to strike where he wants it to.
Translation for Translators
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
31By providing plenty of rain for us, he enables us to have abundant food.
33When we hear his thunder, we know that there will be a storm, and the cattle know it, too.”
Cross References
Job 26:9He causes clouds to ◄obscure/prevent us from seeing► the moon.
Job 37:15◄Do you know how God commands the lightning to flash down from the clouds?/We do not know how God commands the lightning to flash down from the clouds.► [RHQ]
Psalms 18:11Darkness was all around him like a blanket [MET]; dark clouds, full of moisture, covered him [MET].
Psalms 135:7He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
Psalms 148:8and fire and hail, and snow and frost, and strong winds that obey what he commands, I tell all of you to praise Yahweh!
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 →