Job Chapter 38 verse 36 Holy Bible

ASV Job 38:36

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who hath given understanding to the mind?
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BBE Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
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DARBY Job 38:36

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?
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KJV Job 38:36

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
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WBT Job 38:36

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
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WEB Job 38:36

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
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YLT Job 38:36

Who hath put in the inward parts wisdom? Or who hath given To the covered part understanding?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 36. - Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? Some refer this to human wisdom, and understand the Almighty as asking - Who has put man's wisdom into his inward parts? literally, into his kidneys, or as our idiom would express it, "into his heart." But there is great difficulty in supposing a sudden transition from clouds and lightning in vers. 34, 35 to the human understanding in ver. 36, with a return to clouds and rain in ver. 37. Hence many of the best critics understand ver. 36 of the purpose and intelligence that may be regarded as existing in the clouds and rain and lightning themselves, which are God's ministers, and run to and fro at his command, and execute his pleasure. (So Schultens, Rosenmuller, Professor Lee, and Professer Stanley Leathes.) To obtain this result, we must translate the word טוּחות By "tempest" or "thunder-belts," and the word שׂכוי, in the next clause, by "storm n or something similar (see the Revised Version, where "dark clouds" is suggested as an alternative for "inward parts'" and "meteor" as an alternative for "heart"). The whole passage will then run thus: Who hath put wisdom in the thunderbolts? or who hath given understanding to the tempest?

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(36) Wisdom in the inward parts.--The mention of the inward parts and the heart here, in the midst of natural phenomena, perplexes every one; but it is a natural solution to refer them to the lightnings personified: "Who hath put such understanding in their inward parts?"