Job 38:22 BSB — MannaFest

Job 38:22

Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

BSB

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ASV

Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

KJV

Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX (604)

Hast thou entered into the treasures of snow, or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have prepared against the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war? What else must be understood by the 'snow' or 'hail,' but the cold and hard hearts of the wicked? For as charity is designated by warmth, so also in Holy Scripture wickedness is wont to be designated by cold. For it is written, As a cistern maketh its water cold, so doth its own wickedness make cold the soul.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The treasures of the snow - The places where snow is formed, and the cause of that formation. See on Job 37:6 (note). Treasures of the hail - It is more easy to account for the formation of snow than of hail. Hail, however, is generally supposed to be drops of rain frozen in their passage through cold regions of the air; and the hail is always in proportion to the size of the raindrop from which it was formed.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲ֭בָאתָ	Ha.va.ta	¿ have you gone	H935 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
אֹצְר֣וֹת	'o.tze.Rot	[the] storehouses of	H214 →
שָׁ֑לֶג	Sha.leg	snow	H7950 →
וְאֹצְר֖וֹת	ve.'o.tze.Rot	and [the] storehouses of	H214 →
בָּרָ֣ד	ba.Rad	hail	H1259 →
תִּרְאֶֽה׃	tir.'Eh	have you seen?	H7200 →

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
Psalms 33:7
He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
leads to
- Joshua 3:16
  the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…
- Exodus 15:8
  At the blast of Your nostrils the waters piled up; like a wall the currents stood firm; the depths congealed in the heart of the sea.
- Joshua 3:13
  When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will…
- Genesis 1:9–10
  And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
- Habakkuk 3:15
  You trampled the sea with Your horses, churning the great waters.
Through
Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
leads to
- Jeremiah 10:13
  When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
- Job 28:25–26
  When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- Zechariah 10:1
  Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Job