Job 37:3 BSB — MannaFest

Job 37:3

He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

BSB

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ASV

He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

KJV

He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

He directeth it under the whole heaven,.... His voice of thunder, which rolls from one end of the heaven to the other: he charges the clouds with it, and directs both it and them where they shall go and discharge; what tree, house, or man, it shall strike; and where the rain shall fall when the clouds burst: yet Pliny (x) atheistically calls thunder and lightning chance matters.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

He directeth it under the whole heaven - It is under the control of God, and he directs it where he pleases. It is not confined to one spot, but seems to be complaining from every part of the heavens. And his lightning - Margin, as in Hebrew “light.” There can be no doubt that the lightning is intended. Unto the ends of the earth - Margin, as in Hebrew “wings.” The word wings is given to the earth from the idea of its being spread out or expanded like the wings of a bird; compare Job 38:13; Eze 7:

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תַּֽחַת־	ta.chat-	under	H8478 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַשָּׁמַ֥יִם	ha.sha.Ma.yim	the heavens	H8064 →
יִשְׁרֵ֑הוּ	yish.Re.hu	he lets loose it	H8281 →
וְ֝אוֹר֗וֹ	ve.'o.Ro	and light his	H216 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
כַּנְפ֥וֹת	kan.Fot	[the] corners of	H3671 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃	ha.'A.retz	the earth	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.

The walk

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
Revelation 11:19
Then the temple of God in heaven was opened, and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple. And there were flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder, and an earthquake,…
leads to
- Isaiah 30:30
  And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 16:21
  And great hailstones weighing almost a hundred pounds each rained down on them from above. And men cursed God for the plague of hail, because it was so horrendous.
- Revelation 15:5–8
  After this I looked, and the temple—the tabernacle of the Testimony—was opened in heaven.
- Ezekiel 38:22
  I will execute judgment upon him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrents of rain, hailstones, fire, and sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him.
- Revelation 4:5
  From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings, and peals of thunder. Before the throne burned seven torches of fire. These are the seven Spirits of God.
Through
Isaiah 11:12
He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
leads to
- Isaiah 43:6
  I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back!’ Bring My sons from afar, and My daughters from the ends of the earth—
- Isaiah 56:8
  Thus declares the Lord GOD, who gathers the dispersed of Israel: “I will gather to them still others besides those already gathered.”
Through
Matthew 24:27
For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
leads to
- Luke 17:24–37
  For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job