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Job 36:29

The Pulpit Commentary on Job 36:29

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds? The rapid generation of clouds, their gathering together, seemingly, from all quarters, and the way they almost suddenly overspread the heavens ().

are among the most remarkable phenomena of nature, and are very difficult to "understand" and account for. Or the noise of his tabernacle. The awful crash of the thunder, which echoes along the sky—God's "tabernacle," or pavilion ()—is, if not as inexplicable, even more fearful and astounding.

Man shrinks and quails before the terrible sound, and feels himself in the presence of a mighty and inscrutable power.

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