Job 36:32

"For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance."

Key Reflection

This verse suggests that God uses natural phenomena, like lightning, to both judge and provide for his people. The juxtaposition highlights how God maintains a dual role of justice and sustenance, ensuring that even as he brings about judgment, he also abundantly provides for the needs of those under his care.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

With clouds he covereth the light -The Hebrew here is,על־כפים‛al-kaphiym- “upon his hands.” Jerome, “In manibus abscondit lucem,” “he hideth the light in his hands.” Septuagint,Ἐπὶ χειρῶν ἐκάλυψε φῶςEpicheirōnekalupsefōs- “he covereth the light in his hands.” The allusion is, undoubtedly, to the lightning, and the image is, that God takes the lightning in his hands, and directs it as he pleases. There has been great variety however, in the exposition of this verse and the following. Schultens enumerates no less than “twenty-eight” different interpretations, and almost every commentator has had his own view of the passage.

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