Teks -- Job 36:31 (NET)

36:31 It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

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Wesley: Job 36:31 - Judgeth

By thunder and lightning, and rain from the clouds, he executes his judgments against ungodly people.

Wesley: Job 36:31 - Meat

Giveth meat. By the same clouds, he provides plentiful showers dropping fatness on the earth.

JFB: Job 36:31

These (rain and lightnings) are marvellous and not to be understood (Job 36:29), yet necessary. "For by them He judgeth (chastiseth on the one hand), &c. (and on the other, by them) He giveth meat" (food), &c. (Job 37:13; Job 38:23, Job 38:27; Act 14:17).

Clarke: Job 36:31 - By them judgeth he the people

By them judgeth he the people - He makes storms, tempests, winds, hurricanes, tornadoes, thunder and lightning, drought and inundation, the instruments of his justice, to punish rebellious nations

Clarke: Job 36:31 - He giveth meat in abundance

He giveth meat in abundance - Though by these he punishes offenders, yet through the same, as instruments, he provides for the wants of men and animals in general. Storms, tempests, and hurricanes, agitate the lower regions of the atmosphere, disperse noxious vapours, and thus render it fit for respiration; and without these it would soon become a stagnant, putrid, and deadly mass, in which neither animals could live, nor vegetables thrive. And by dews, rains, snows, frosts, winds, cold, and heat, he fructifies the earth, and causes it to bring forth abundantly, so that every thing living is filled with plenteousness. Some critics translate this latter clause thus: - He passeth sentence amain. I cannot see this meaning in the original words. Not one of the versions has so understood them; nor does this translation, supposing even that the Hebrew would bear it, give so fine and so elegant an idea as that of the common version. I always feel reluctant to give a sense in any case that is not supported in some of its parts by any of the ancient versions, and more especially when it is contrary to the whole of them; and still more particularly when opposed to the Arabic, which in the Book of Job, containing so many Arabisms, I consider to be of very great importance.

TSK: Job 36:31 - by // he giveth

by : Job 37:13, Job 38:22, Job 38:23; Gen 6:17, Gen 7:17-24, Gen 19:24; Exo 9:23-25; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:15; Jos 10:11; 1Sa 2:10, 1Sa 7:10, 1Sa 12:18

he giveth : Job 38:26, Job 38:27; Psa 65:9-13, Psa 104:13-15, Psa 104:27, Psa 104:28, Psa 136:25; Act 14:17

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 36:31 - He giveth meat in abundance

By thunder and lightning he manifests his displeasure and executes his judgments against ungodly people or countries.

He giveth meat in abundance or, and (which conjunction is oft understood) he giveth meat , &c., i.e. by the selfsame clouds he punisheth wicked men by thunder and lightning, and provideth for others by those plentiful showers which accompany them.

Haydock: Job 36:31 - Mortals

Mortals. Hebrew, "in abundance." (Haydock) ---

By thunder he overwhelms many nations, while by moderate rains, he causes the earth ot fructify (Calmet) and nourish mankind. (Menochius)

Gill: Job 36:31 - For by them judgeth he the people // he giveth meat in abundance

For by them judgeth he the people,.... That is, by the clouds; which the Lord uses both in a way of judgment, as expressed in this clause; and in a way of mercy, as in the following; by these, and what issue out of them, as rain, hail, winds, thunder, and lightning, he sometimes punishes the inhabitants of the earth, as he did the old world by a deluge of water, which came partly from the fountains of the great deep, and partly from the windows of heaven, which destroyed man and beast, and the increase of the earth, Gen 7:11; he punished the Egyptians by a violent storm of hail, Exo 9:23; and slew many of the Canaanites with hailstones, Jos 10:11; Pharaoh and his host sunk like lead when he blew with his wind, Exo 15:10; and Sodom and Gomorrah, with the cities of the plain, were destroyed with thunder and lightning, fire and brimstone, from heaven, Gen 19:24; as the army of the Philistines were discomfited by thunder in the times of Samuel, 1Sa 7:10; and the captains of fifties, with their men, were consumed by lightning in the times of Elijah, 2Ki 1:14; and as the heavens and the earth will be burnt with fire at the end of all things, Mat 13:40, 2Pe 3:12;

he giveth meat in abundance; very plentifully, or to a multitude of creatures, both men and cattle; who have a liberal supply of food by means of the clouds and rain, which falling upon the earth make it fruitful, so that it gives bread to the eater, and seed to the sower; causes grass to grow up for the beasts of the field, and produces bread corn, oil, and wine, for the benefit of men; an emblem of the variety and plenty of spiritual food dispensed to the churches of Christ, through the ministry of the word, and by the ministers of it.