Job 37:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Job 37:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:32
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Job 26:9
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
Job 38:25
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Devotion God Guidance Lord Majesty Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena

Commentary

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

(vv. 21-24)

Elihu here concludes his discourse with some short but great sayings concerning the glory of God, as that which he was himself impressed, and desired to impress others, with a holy awe of. He speaks concisely, and in haste, because, it should seem, he perceived that God was about to take the work into his own hands. 1. He observes that God who has said that he will dwell in the thick darkness and…

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

(vv. 21)

21. cleanseth--that is, cleareth the air of clouds. When the “bright light” of the sun, previously not seen through “clouds,” suddenly shines out from behind them, owing to the wind clearing them away, the effect is dazzling to the eye; so if God’s majesty, now hidden, were suddenly revealed in all its brightness, it would spread darkness over Job’s eyes, anxious as he is for it (compare, see on J…