Job 38:36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
World English Bible Classic
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 out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
37Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
Cross References
Exodus 31:3I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,
Job 9:4God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Who has hardened himself against him and prospered?
Psalms 51:6Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Ecclesiastes 2:26For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
James 1:5But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will 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 →