Job 37:6 (BSB)
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
Commentary on Job 37:6
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 37:6-13: 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!
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 37:6: For he saith to the snow, be thou on the earth,.... In the original it is, be thou earth: hence one of the Rabbins formed a notion, that the earth was created from snow under the throne of glory, which is justly censured by Maimonides (f); for there is a defect of the letter as in Ch2 34:30; as Aben Ezra observes; and therefore rightly...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 37:6: Be--more forcible than "fall," as UMBREIT translates Gen 1:3. to the small rain, &c.--He saith, Be on the earth. The shower increasing from "small" to "great," is expressed by the plural "showers" (Margin), following the singular "shower." Winter rain (Sol 2:11).
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 37:6: For he saith to the snow, Be thou [on] the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. (d) So that neither small rain nor great, snow nor anything else comes without God's appointment.