God’s Word Translation
Job 37:5
5God’s voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand.
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 flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven. His light flashes to the ends of the earth. 4It is followed by the roar of his voice. He thunders with his majestic voice. He doesn’t hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard. God’s voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand. 6“He says to the snow, ‘Fall to the ground,’ and to the pouring rain, ‘Rain harder!’ 7He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize 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 things that ⌞we⌟ cannot understand and miracles that ⌞we⌟ cannot count.
- Job 9:10He does great things that are unsearchable and miracles that cannot be numbered.
- Job 11:7“Can you discover God’s hidden secrets, or are you able to find the Almighty’s limits?
- Job 26:14“These are only glimpses of what he does. We ⌞only⌟ hear a whisper of him! Who can understand the thunder of his power?”
- Job 36:26“Certainly, God is so great that he is beyond our understanding. The number of his years cannot be counted.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. Yet, mortals still can’t grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end ⌞of time⌟.
- Isaiah 40:21Don’t you know? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Don’t you understand the foundations of the earth?
- Romans 11:33God’s riches, wisdom, and knowledge are so deep that it is impossible to explain his decisions or to understand his ways.
- Revelation 15:3and singing the song of God’s servant Moses and the song of the lamb. They sang, “The things you do are spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. The way you do them is fair and true, 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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