American Standard Version
Job 37:5
5God thundereth marvellously with his voice;Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Job 37:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
- New International Version (NIV)God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
- English Standard Version (ESV)God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
- New King James Version (NKJV)God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend.
Context of Job 37:5
3He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth. 4After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty; And he restraineth not the lightnings when his voice is heard. God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. 6For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain. 7He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know it.
Read all of Job 37Job 37:5 word by word
יַרְעֵ֤ם אֵ֣ל בְּ֭קוֹלוֹ נִפְלָא֑וֹת עֹשֶׂ֥ה גְ֝דֹל֗וֹת וְלֹ֣א נֵדָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 37:5
- 2 Samuel 22:14Jehovah thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice.
- Job 5:9Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
- Job 9:10That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number.
- Job 11:7Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
- Job 26:14Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
- Job 36:26Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
- Isaiah 40:21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages.
Commentaries on Job 37:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5God thundereth marvellously with his voice - This is the conclusion of Elihu's description of the lightning and thunder: and here only should chapter 36 have ended. He began, Job 36:29, with the noise of God's tabernacle; and he ends here with the marvellous thundering of Jehovah. Probably the writer of the book of Job had seen the description of a similar thunder storm as given by the psalmist, Psalm 77:16-19; : - Psalm 77:16; The waters saw thee, O God!…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5God thundereth marvelously - He thunders in a wonderful manner. The idea is, that the voice of his thunder is an amazing exhibition of his majesty and power. Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend - That is, not only in regard to the thunder and the tempest, but in other things. The description of the storm properly ends here, and in the subsequent verses Elihu proceeds to specify various other phenomena, which were wholly incomprehensible by…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. (Job 36:26; Psa 65:6; 139:14). The sublimity of the description lies in this, that God is everywhere in the storm, directing it whither He will [Barnes]. See Psa 29:1-11, where, as here, the "voice" of God is repeated with grand effect. The thunder in Arabia is sublimely terrible.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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