Job 37:15

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

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WEBBE

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

BSB

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

KJV

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

ASV

Dost thou know how God layeth [his charge] upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

BBE

Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

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הֲתֵדַע ha·te·da' ¿ do you know H3045 בְּשׂוּם־ be·sum- when appoints H7760 אֱלוֹהַּ 'e·lo·ah God H433 עֲלֵיהֶם 'a·lei·hem on them H5921 וְהוֹפִיעַ ve·ho·fi·a' and he makes shine forth H3313 אוֹר 'or [the] light of H216 עֲנָנוֹ a·na·no cloud his H6051

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 14–20

Due thoughts of the works of God will help to reconcile us to all his providences. As God has a powerful, freezing north wind, so he has a thawing, composing south wind: the Spirit is compared to both, because he both convinces and comforts, So 4:16. The best of men are much in the dark concerning the glorious perfections of the Divine nature and the Divine government. Those who, through grace, know much of God, know nothing, in comparison with what is to be known, and of what will be known, when that which is perfect is come.

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