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Job 37:11 King James Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
How the thunderclouds are dispersed, or else employed by God, either for correction or mercy.

by watering--by loading it with water.

wearieth--burdeneth it, so that it falls in rain; thus "wearieth" answers to the parallel "scattereth" (compare, see on Job 37:9); a clear sky resulting alike from both.

bright cloud--literally, "cloud of his light," that is, of His lightning. UMBREIT for "watering," &c., translates; "Brightness drives away the clouds, His light scattereth the thick clouds"; the parallelism is thus good, but the Hebrew hardly sanctions it.
 
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12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
11 For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:
13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
13 Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?
29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.