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Job 37:4
4After the lightning comes the sound of his voice. He roars like the great sound of thunder. When he speaks like that, the storm never stops.
Job 37:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
- New International Version (NIV)After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
- English Standard Version (ESV)After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
- New King James Version (NKJV)After it a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain them when His voice is heard.
Context of Job 37:4
2Listen carefully to the sound of God's voice, when he speaks like thunder. 3He sends lightning across the whole sky. Its light reaches everywhere on the earth. After the lightning comes the sound of his voice. He roars like the great sound of thunder. When he speaks like that, the storm never stops. 5When God's voice speaks, he causes wonderful things to happen. He does great things that we cannot understand. 6He tells the snow to fall to the earth. He tells the rain to pour down and make the ground wet.
Read all of Job 37Job 37:4 word by word
אַחֲרָ֤יו׀ יִשְׁאַג־ק֗וֹל יַ֭רְעֵם בְּק֣וֹל גְּאוֹנ֑וֹ וְלֹ֥א יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗ם כִּֽי־יִשָּׁמַ֥ע קוֹלֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:4
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord shouts over the water. The God of glory makes the noise of thunder. The Lord appears over the great sea.
- Psalms 68:33He is the one who rides in the sky, as he has done from the beginning of time. Listen! He shouts with a powerful voice.
- Exodus 15:7With your powerful authority, you killed your enemies. You were very angry with them. You killed them, like a fire burns dry grass.
- Deuteronomy 33:26Israelites, there is no god like your God. He rides across the sky to help you. He travels with great authority on the clouds.
- Job 36:27It is God who pulls up water from the earth to make the clouds. Then he causes it to become rain.
Commentaries on Job 37:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4After it a voice roareth - After the flash has been seen, the peal is heard; and this will be more or fewer seconds after the peal, in proportion to the distance of the thunder cloud from the ear. Lightning traverses any space without any perceivable succession of time; nothing seems to be any obstacle to its progress. A multitude of persons taking hands, the first and the last connected with the electric machine, all feel the shock in the same instant…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4After it a voice roareth - After the lightning; that is, the flash is seen before the thunder is heard. This is apparent to all, the interval between the lightning and the hearing of the thunder depending on the distance. Lucretius, who has referred to the same fact, compares this with what occurs when a woodman is seen at a distance to wield an axe. The glance of the axe is seen long before the sound of the blow is heard: Sed tonitrum fit uti post…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. The thunderclap follows at an interval after the flash. stay them--He will not hold back the lightnings (Job 37:3), when the thunder is heard [Maurer]. Rather, take "them" as the usual concomitants of thunder, namely, rain and hail [Umbreit] (Job 40:9).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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