Tree of Life Version
Job 37:5
5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things beyond our comprehension.
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
3Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, and His light to the ends of the earth. 4After that a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not hold them back when His voice is heard. God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things beyond our comprehension. 6“For to the snow He says, ‘Fall to the earth,’ and to the torrential rain— be a mighty downpour of rain. 7He seals the hand of every man, so that all men will know 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 22:14Adonai also thundered from heaven and Elyon gave forth His voice.
- Job 5:9Who does great things beyond comprehension, wonders without number.
- Job 9:10He does great and unfathomable things, wonders beyond number.
- Job 11:7“Can you discover the mysteries of God? Can you find the limits of Shaddai?
- Job 26:14Indeed, these are but glimpses of His ways; how faint the whisper, we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His might?”
- Job 36:26Behold, God is exalted —beyond our knowledge! The number of His years is unsearchable.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Moreover, He has set eternity in their heart—yet without the possibility that humankind can ever discover the work that God has done from the beginning to the end.
- Isaiah 40:21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
- Romans 11:33O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and how incomprehensible His ways!
- Revelation 15:3And they are singing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are Your deeds, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot! 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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