Job 37:16

Who and what was Job then to accuse His ways? It would be better to weigh it all, stand still, and consider His wonders. Granted, there is such a thing as law in the universe. But did Job know how God imposed it on the atmosphere, and made the light of His cloud shine? Did he know anything about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge... Man can feel, but can he explain?

Let Job forget himself, his troubles, his "friends"; let him "stop and consider the wondrous works of God." Can he explain these purposes? Does he realise the light that shines behind the clouds? Does he understand the balancing of these clouds? How amazingly simple such a statement is. All nature is balanced in this way, one force against another; and so too there is divine equilibrium in the clouds of life. He will "with the temptation provide the way of escape." All things work — but they work together for good to those who love God. There are the balancings of the clouds.

Elihu urges Job to stand still and consider the wondrous works of God. Job thought he knew how the Lord should act toward him. But did he know when and how God sent the rain, or made the dark cloud shine as light? Did he know the balancings of the clouds (v.16)? Here is a lesson about God balancing the clouds of Job's suffering, in a way Job would never have thought of. But these are works of Him who is perfect in knowledge.

What do you know about it all? "Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?" That is, even among those men of God, we know only in part. There is great darkness even now.

Job 37... finally turns our eyes to the wondrous works of God in the outward world... These, I admit, are very far from the depth of truth that the doctrine of Christ or His grace gives. It is not the unseen, but the visible. Here we can understand that we are in the infant days of even God's saints. They spelled out the vast letters of heaven and earth, seen before the Scriptures were read... For that very reason, because Christ was not here, God takes up the outward world to show His majesty, faithfulness, and gracious power in everything around man.

A halt is called and Job is instructed to listen, stand still and consider the wonderful works of God. Whenever God has something important to say, He calls man to stand still and listen... Everything in creation is evidence of God! In Romans 1 we read that the things that are made show His eternal power and Godhead, so that men everywhere are left without excuse.