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Clouds

Formed from the sea - 1Ki 18:44; Am 9:6

Are garment of the sea - Job 38:9

GOD

• Established
- Pr 8:28
• Balanced in the air
- Job 37:16
• Disposed in order
- Job 37:15
• Brings over the earth
- Ge 9:14
• Binds up
- Job 26:8
• Spreads out
- Job 26:9
• Scatters
- Job 37:11

Power and wisdom of God exhibited in forming - Ps 135:6,7; 147:5,8; Jer 10:13; 51:16

Power and wisdom of God exhibited in condensing - Job 36:27,28; 37:10,11; Pr 3:20

Made for the glory of God - Ps 148:4

CALLED THE

• Clouds of heaven
- Da 7:13; Mt 24:30
• Windows of heaven
- Ge 7:11; Isa 24:18
• Bottles of heaven
- Job 38:37
• Chambers of God
- Ps 104:3,13
• Waters above the firmament
- Ge 1:7
• Dust of God's feet
- Na 1:3

DIFFERENT KINDS OF, MENTIONED

• White
- Re 14:14
• Bright
- Job 37:11; Zec 10:1
• Thick
- Job 22:14; 37:11
• Black
- 1Ki 18:45
• Swift
- Isa 19:1
• Great
- Eze 1:4
• Small
- 1Ki 18:44

Often cover the heavens - Ps 147:8

Often obscure the sun, &c - Job 36:32; Eze 32:7

Often dispersed by the wind - Ho 13:3

USES OF

• To give rain
- Jud 5:4; Ps 104:13,14
• To supply dew
- Pr 3:20; Isa 18:4
• To moderate heat
- Isa 25:5

From the west, bring rain - Lu 12:54

Though small, often bring much rain - 1Ki 18:44,45

Thunder and lightning come from - Ps 77:17,18

The rainbow appears in - Ge 9:13,14

Frequently the instrument of God's judgments - Ge 7:11,12; Job 37:13; Ps 77:17

MAN

• Ignorant of the spreading of
- Job 36:29
• Ignorant of the disposing of
- Job 37:15
• Ignorant of the balancing of
- Job 37:16
• Cannot number
- Job 38:37
• Cannot cause to rain
- Job 38:34
• Cannot stay
- Job 38:37

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of multitudes of persons
- Isa 60:8; Heb 12:1
• Of hostile armies
- Jer 4:13; Eze 38:9,16
• Of sins of men
- Isa 44:22
• Of judgments of God
- La 2:1; Eze 30:3; 34:12; Joe 2:2
• Of unsearchableness of God
- 2Sa 22:12; Ps 97:2; Eze 1:4
• (Riding upon,) of the power and greatness of God
- Ps 104:3; Isa 19:1
• (Passing away,) of the goodness and prosperity of
hypocrites - Ho 6:4; 13:3
• (Without water,) of false teachers
- Jude 1:12
• (Carried away by a tempest,) of false teachers
- 2Pe 2:17
• (Without rain,) of the fraudulent
- Pr 25:14
• (A morning without,) of wise rulers
- 2Sa 23:3,4
• (When seasonable,) of the favour of good rulers
- Pr 16:15
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