Christian Standard Bible
Job 37:5
5God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that 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 lets it loose beneath the entire sky; his lightning to the ends of the earth. 4Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with his majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when his rumbling voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. 6For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains, 7serve as his sign to all mankind, so that all men may know his work.
Read all of Job 37Job 37:5 word by word
יַרְעֵ֤ם אֵ֣ל בְּ֭קוֹלוֹ נִפְלָא֑וֹת עֹשֶׂ֥ה גְ֝דֹל֗וֹת וְלֹ֣א נֵדָֽע׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 37:5
- 2 Samuel 22:14The Lord thundered from heaven; the Most High made his voice heard.
- Job 5:9He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Job 9:10He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Job 11:7Can you fathom the depths of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- Job 26:14These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?
- Job 36:26Yes, God is exalted beyond our knowledge; the number of his years cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.
- Isaiah 40:21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not considered the foundations of the earth?
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and untraceable his ways!
- Revelation 15:3They sang the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the Lamb: Great and awe-inspiring are your works, Lord God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations.
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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