Job 37:5 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 5. God thundereth marvellously with his voice ] This is the conclusion of Elihu's description of the lightning and thunder: and here only should chap. xxxvi. have ended. He began, , 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, :- Ver. 16. The waters saw thee, O God! The waters saw thee, and were afraid. Yea, the deeps were affrighted! Ver. 17. The clouds poured out water; The ethers sent forth a sound; Yea, thine arrows went abroad. Ver. 18. The voice of thy thunder was through the expanse: The lightnings illumined the globe; The earth trembled and shook! Ver. 19. Thy way is in the sea, And thy paths on many waters; But thy footsteps are not known. Great things doeth he ] This is the beginning of a new paragraph; and relates particularly to the phenomena which are afterwards mentioned. All of them wondrous things; and, in many respects, to us incomprehensible.

‏ Job 37:5

Verse 5. God thundereth marvellously with his voice] This is the conclusion of Elihu's description of the lightning and thunder: and here only should chap. xxxvi. 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, Ps 77:16-19:-

Ver. 16. The waters saw thee, O God!

The waters saw thee, and were afraid.

Yea, the deeps were affrighted!

Ver. 17. The clouds poured out water;

The ethers sent forth a sound;

Yea, thine arrows went abroad.

Ver. 18. The voice of thy thunder was through the expanse:

The lightnings illumined the globe;

The earth trembled and shook!

Ver. 19. Thy way is in the sea,

And thy paths on many waters;

But thy footsteps are not known.

Great things doeth he] This is the beginning of a new paragraph; and relates particularly to the phenomena which are afterwards mentioned. All of them wondrous things; and, in many respects, to us incomprehensible.