Job 37:12 BSB — MannaFest

Job 37:12

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

BSB

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ASV

And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world,

KJV

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

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Commentary

4 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And it is turned round about by his counsels - The original is difficult: והוא מסבות מתהפך בתחבולתו vehu mesibboth mithhappech bethachbulothav; which has been thus paraphrased: And he - the sun, makes revolutions - causes the heavenly bodies to revolve round him, turning round himself - turning round his own axis, by his attachments - his attractive and repulsive influences, by which the heavenly bodies revolve round him, and by which, as if strongly tied to their center, בחבל bechebel, with a cable or rope, they are projected to their proper distances, and prevented from coming too near, or flying off too far.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Turned - The clouds are carried about to this or that place. Not by chance (though nothing seems to be more casual than the motions of the clouds) but by his order and governance.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus his will is done upon the face of the world in the earth, that is, among the children of men, to whom God has an eye in all these things, of whom it is said that he made them to dwell on the face of the earth, Acts xvii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

UMBREIT for "watering," &c., translates; "Brightness drives away the clouds, His light scattereth the thick clouds"; the parallelism is thus good, but the Hebrew hardly sanctions it.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְה֤וּא	ve.Hu'	and it	H1931 →
מְסִבּ֨וֹת׀	me.si.Bot	round about	H4524 →
מִתְהַפֵּ֣ךְ	mit.ha.Pekh	[is] turning every way	H2015 →
בְּתַחְבּוּלֹתָ֣יו	be.tach.bu.la.tov	by guidance<s> his	H8458 →
לְפָעֳלָ֑ם	le.fo.'o.Lam	to do they	H6466 →
כֹּ֖ל	kol	all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
יְצַוֵּ֓ם׀	ye.tza.Vem	he commands them	H6680 →
עַל־	'al-	over	H5921 →
פְּנֵ֖י	pe.Nei	[the] surface of	H6440 →
תֵבֵ֣ל	te.Vel	[the] world	H8398 →
אָֽרְצָה׃	'A.re.tzah	[the] earth towards	H776 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as…
leads to
- James 5:7–8
  Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- Philippians 4:4
  Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
- Leviticus 26:4
  I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
- Deuteronomy 11:14
  then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.
- Hosea 6:3
  So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water…
Through
Psalms 104:24
How many are Your works, O LORD! In wisdom You have made them all; the earth is full of Your creatures.
leads to
- Jeremiah 10:12
  The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
- Psalms 40:5
  Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I…
- Psalms 50:10–12
  for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

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The walk

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