English Standard Version
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend.
- New Living Translation (NLT)God’s voice is glorious in the thunder. We can’t even imagine the greatness of his power.
Context of Job 37:5
3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth. 4After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. 6For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,' likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. 7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he 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
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Cross-references for Job 37:5
- 2 Samuel 22:14The Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High uttered his voice.
- Job 5:9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
- Job 9:10who does great things beyond searching out, and marvelous things beyond number.
- Job 11:7"Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
- Job 26:14Behold, 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 has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- Isaiah 40:21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
- Revelation 15:3And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O 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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