Job 37:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Job 37:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:4
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Jeremiah 10:12-13
He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion. …
Proverbs 3:19-20
The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. …
Job 36:29
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-20)

Elihu here addresses himself closely to Job, desiring him to apply what he had hitherto said to himself. He begs that he would hearken to this discourse (Job 37:14), that he would pause awhile: Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. What we hear is not likely to profit us unless we consider it, and we are not likely to consider things fully unless we stand still and compose ourselves…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

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…