God’s Word Translation
Job 37:7
7He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work.
Job 37:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
- New International Version (NIV)So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He seals the hand of every man, That all men may know His work.
Context of Job 37:7
5God’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!’ He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work. 8Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs. 9A storm comes out of its chamber. It is cold because of the strong winds.
Read all of Job 37Job 37:7 word by word
בְּיַד־כָּל־אָדָ֥ם יַחְתּ֑וֹם לָ֝דַ֗עַת כָּל־אַנְשֵׁ֥י מַעֲשֵֽׂהוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:7
- Job 5:12He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plans so that they cannot do anything successfully.
- Job 9:7He commands the sun not to rise. He doesn’t let the stars come out.
- Job 36:24Remember that you should praise his work. People have sung about it.
- Psalms 46:8Come, see the works of the Lord, the devastation he has brought to the earth.
- Psalms 64:8They will trip over their own tongues. Everyone who sees them will shake his head.
- Psalms 92:4You made me find joy in what you have done, O Lord. I will sing joyfully about the works of your hands.
- Psalms 109:27Then they will know that this is your doing, that you, O Lord, are the one who saved me.
- Psalms 111:2The Lord’s deeds are spectacular. They should be studied by all who enjoy them.
- Ecclesiastes 8:17then I saw everything that God has done. No one is able to grasp the work that is done under the sun. However hard a person may search for it, he will not find ⌞its meaning⌟. Even though a wise person claims to know, he is not able to grasp it.
- Isaiah 5:12At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they don’t pay attention to what the Lord is doing or see what his hands have done.
- Isaiah 26:11O Lord, your power is visible, but they do not see it. They will see how devoted your people are, and they will be put to shame. Your burning anger will destroy your enemies.
Commentaries on Job 37:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7He sealeth up the hand of every man - After all that has been said, and much of it most learnedly, on this verse, I think that the act of freezing is probably intended; that when the earth is bound up by intense frost, the hand, יד yad, labor, of every man is sealed up; he can do no more labor in the field, till the south wind blow, by which a thaw takes place. While the earth is in this state of rigidity, the beasts go into their dens, and remain in…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7He sealeth up the hand of every man - That is, in the winter, when the snow is on the ground, when the streams are frozen, and when the labors of the husbandman cease. The idea of “sealing up the hand” is derived from the common purpose of a seal, to make fast, to close up, to secure (compare Job 9:7, note; Job 33:16, note), and the sense is, that the hands can no more be used in ordinary toil. Every man in the snow and rain of winter is prevented from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7He seals up the hand of every man … know His work: The end of the farming season gives people time to think about God's control over everything.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. In winter God stops man's out-of-doors activity. sealeth--closeth up (Job 9:7). Man's "hands" are then tied up. his work--in antithesis to man's own work ("hand") which at other times engages men so as to make them liable to forget their dependence on God. Umbreit more literally translates, That all men whom He has made (literally, "of His making") may be brought to acknowledgment."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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