Job 37:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

Job 37:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Job 38:13
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Psalms 97:4
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
Psalms 77:13
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

Topics

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-5)

Thunder and lightning, which usually go together, are sensible indications of the glory and majesty, the power and terror, of Almighty God, one to the ear and the other to the eye; in these God leaves not himself without witness of his greatness, as, in the rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, he leaves not himself without witness of his goodness (Acts 14:17), even to the most stupid and unthink…

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

(vv. 3)

3. directeth it--however zigzag the lightning’s course; or, rather, it applies to the pealing roll of the thunder. God’s all-embracing power. ends--literally, “wings,” “skirts,” the habitable earth being often compared to an extended garment (Job 38:13; Is 11:12).