Job 37:2 BSB — MannaFest

Job 37:2

Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

KJV

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII (604)

It will hear a hearing in the terror of His voice, and a sound going out of His mouth. It is the habit of Holy Scripture, that, when it informs us that any thing is heard with the hearing, it says that this hearing is heard. As Habakkuk says, O Lord, I have heard Thy hearing, and was afraid. [Hab. 3, 1] Whence it is said here also, It will hear a hearing in the terror of His voice. But we must observe that the voice of God is said to be heard, not in joy, but in terror.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Hear attentively - “Hear with hearing.” The words seem to intimate that there was actually at that time a violent storm of thunder and lightning, and that the successive peals were now breaking over the house, and the lightning flashing before their eyes. The storm continued till Elihu had finished, and out of that storm the Almighty spoke. See the beginning of the succeeding chapter, Job 38 (note). The noise of his voice - The sudden clap. And the sound that goeth out - The peal or continued rattling, pounding, and thumping, to the end of the peal.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שִׁמְע֤וּ	shim.'U	listen	H8085 →
שָׁמ֣וֹעַ	sha.Mo.a'	completely <to listen>	H8085 →
בְּרֹ֣גֶז	be.Ro.gez	to [the] raging of	H7267 →
קֹל֑וֹ	ko.Lo	voice his	H6963 →
וְ֝הֶ֗גֶה	ve.He.geh	and [the] rumbling	H1899 →
מִפִּ֥יו	mi.Piv	[which] from mouth his	H6310 →
יֵצֵֽא׃	ye.Tze'	it comes out	H3318 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H7267berogezto [the] raging of7×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 37:5
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
leads to
- Job 5:9
  the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Romans 11:33
  O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Ecclesiastes 3:11
  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Isaiah 40:28
  Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching…
- Job 9:10
  He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
Through
Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
leads to
- Job 40:6
  Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said:
- Job 37:1–2
  “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- 1 Kings 19:11
  Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered…

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job