Job 37
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Job 37
1“At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.
2 #
Job 36.33
Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3Under the whole heaven he lets it loose,
and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
4 #
Ps 29.3
After it his voice roars;
he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings#37.4 Heb them when his voice is heard.
5 #
Job 5.9; 36.26 God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
6 #
Job 36.27; 38.22 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’;
and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,
7 #
Job 12.14
serves as a sign on everyone’s hand,
so that all whom he has made may know it.#37.7 Meaning of Heb of 37.7 uncertain
8 #
Ps 104.22
Then the animals go into their lairs
and remain in their dens.
9 #
Job 9.9; Ps 147.17 From its chamber comes the whirlwind
and cold from the scattering winds.
10 #
Job 38.29; Ps 147.17 By the breath of God ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen fast.
11 #
v 15
; Job 36.27, 29He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.
12 #
Ps 148.8; Prov 8.31; Isa 14.21; 27.6 They turn round and round by his guidance
to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of the habitable world.
13 #
Ex 9.18; 1 Sam 12.18; 1 Kings 18.45; Job 38.26 Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.
14 #
Ps 111.2
“Hear this, O Job;
stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
15Do you know how God lays his command upon them
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
16 #
vv 5, 14, 23; Job 36.4Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,
17you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?
18 #
Job 9.8; Ps 104.2; Isa 44.24 Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a molten mirror?
19Teach us what we shall say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
20Should he be told that I want to speak?
Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?
21Now, no one can look on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
22Out of the north comes golden splendor;
around God is awesome majesty.
23 #
Job 8.3; 9.4; Isa 63.9; 1 Tim 6.16 The Almighty#37.23 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai—we cannot find him;
he is great in power and justice,
and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
24 #
Mt 10.28; 11.25; 1 Cor 1.26 Therefore mortals fear him;
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”
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