Job Chapter 37 verse 11 Holy Bible
Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
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The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
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Also with plentiful moisture he loadeth the thick clouds, his light dispels the cloud;
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Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
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Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
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Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
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Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud; rather, also with moisture he ladeth the thick cloud. Elihu returns from his description of the winter season to the more ordinary condition of things. Rain is the chief necessity of Eastern countries; and God is ever providing it, causing moisture to be drawn up from earth and sea, and safely lodged in the clouds, whence it descends, as needed, and as commanded by God, upon the fields and plains that man cultivates. He scattereth his bright cloud. Most commentators see a reference to lightning here; and it is possible, no doubt, that such a reference is intended. "His bright cloud" - literally, "the cloud of his light" - may mean "the cloud in which his lightning is stored." But perhaps no more is meant than that God spreads abroad over the earth the clouds on which his sunlight rests. The genial showers of spring fall generally from clouds that are, in part at any rate, steeped in the sun's rays.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) He wearieth the thick cloud.--Also He ladeth the thick cloud with moisture, maketh it to be charged with rain. "He scattereth the cloud of His lightning," that is, which containeth His lightning. Others render, "Yea, the bright sun weareth out (disperseth) the thick cloud; it scattereth the cloud that holds His lightning. And it (the cloud) is turned round about by His counsels, that they may do His purpose, even all which He commandeth them, upon the face of the habitable world." Whether for correction, or for His land generally, or whether He causeth the rain to come as a special mercy:--these are the various purposes for which God reserves His showers.
