9He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. …
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-14)The truth received a great deal of light from the dispute between Job and his friends concerning those points about which they differed; but now they are upon a subject in which they were all agreed, the infinite glory and power of God. How does truth triumph, and how brightly does it shine, when there appears no other strife between the contenders than which shall speak most highly and honourably…
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