Job 37:16
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New International Version (©2011)
Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Do you understand how he moves the clouds with wonderful perfection and skill?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds, The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect,

NET Bible (©2006)
Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is blameless in knowledge?

American King James Version
Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

American Standard Version
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?

Darby Bible Translation
Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

English Revised Version
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Webster's Bible Translation
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

World English Bible
Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:14-20 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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 16. - Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds? i.e. "how they are poised and suspended in the sky" (Stanley Loathes). The wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge (comp. Job 36:5).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?.... How those ponderous bodies, as some of them are very weighty, full of water, are poised, and hang in the air, without turning this way or the other, or falling on the earth;

the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge; of God, who is a God of knowledge, of knowledges, 1 Samuel 2:3; who knows himself and all his works, all creatures and things whatever, see Job 36:4; and this is another of his wondrous works, which none but he, whose knowledge is perfect, and is the author and giver of knowledge, can know, even the poising and balancing of the clouds in the air; we see they are balanced, but we know not how it is done.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

16. Hebrew, "Hast thou understanding of the balancings," &c., how the clouds are poised in the air, so that their watery gravity does not bring them to the earth? The condensed moisture, descending by gravity, meets a warmer temperature, which dissipates it into vapor (the tendency of which is to ascend) and so counteracts the descending force.

perfect in knowledge—God; not here in the sense that Elihu uses it of himself (Job 36:4).

dost thou know—how, &c.

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Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
…15Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine? 16Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge? 17How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind? …

Job 5:9 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
Job 36:4 Be assured that my words are not false; one who has perfect knowledge is with you.
Job 36:29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
Job 37:5 God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
Job 37:14 "Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.
Job 37:15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
Job 37:17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
Psalm 78:4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.