Job 37:16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Cross References

Job 5:9
Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

Job 36:4
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 36:29
Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Job 37:5
God thunders marvelously with his voice; great things does he, which we cannot comprehend.

Job 37:14
Listen to this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

Job 37:15
Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Job 37:17
How your garments are warm, when he quiets the earth by the south wind?

Psalm 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.