SEV Biblia, Chapter 36:31
Con ellas castiga a los pueblos, y da comida a la multitud.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 36:31
Verse 31. 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. 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 24-33 - Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may se God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought to give him the glory. But whil the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the true believer shoul rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's voice, eve when he speaks in terror to his enemies. There is no light but ther may be a cloud to intercept it. The light of the favour of God, the light of his countenance, the most blessed light of all, even tha light has many a cloud. The clouds of our sins cause the Lord to his face, and hinder the light of his loving-kindness from shining on ou souls __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 בם ידין 1777 עמים 5971 יתן 5414 אכל 400 למכביר׃ 4342
