Job 37:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

Job 37:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 111:2
The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Psalms 109:27
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
Job 36:24
Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
Ecclesiastes 8:17
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Isaiah 5:12
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

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. 6-13)

The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and…

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

(vv. 7)

7. In winter God stops man’s out-of-doors activity. sealeth--closeth up (Job 9:7). Man’s “hands” are then tied up. his work--in antithesis to man’s own work (“hand”) which at other times engages men so as to make them liable to forget their dependence on God. Umbreit more literally translates, That all men whom He has made (literally, “of His making”) may be brought to acknowledgment.”