New International Version
Job 37:5
5God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
Job 37:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
- 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.
- 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
3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. 4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. 6He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’ 7So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.
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 voice of the Most High resounded.
- Job 5:9He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
- Job 9:10He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
- Job 11:7“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
- Job 26:14And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
- Job 36:26How great is God—beyond our understanding! The number of his years is past finding out.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
- Isaiah 40:21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
- Romans 11:33Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
- Revelation 15:3and sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God 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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