Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 36:32 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 32. 32With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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Role in This Section
Job 36:32 advances the thought unit with the words “With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.” Elihu states “With clouds he covereth the light” as one poetic claim in Elihu Turns to God's Greatness in Rain and Storm.
Read It With
- Job 36:24–36:33
Read Job 36:32 with 36:24–36:33. Read alone, “With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Elihu calls Job to magnify visible works and describes divine eternity, evaporation, clouds, thunder, light, sea, judgment, and provision.
Why It Needs Context
Job 36:32 depends on 36:24–36:33; isolating “With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Elihu and “Elihu Turns to God's Greatness in Rain and Storm.”
Read Job 36:24–33 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 36:24–36:33 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Elihu Turns to God's Greatness in Rain and Storm.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 24. 24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.
Verse 25. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.
Verse 26. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
Verse 27. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Verse 28. 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
Verse 29. 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?
Verse 30. 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
Verse 31. 31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
Verse 32. 32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Verse 33. 33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 36:24–36:33 — Elihu Turns to God's Greatness in Rain and StormSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 36:24–36:33, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 36:24–36:33
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