Job 37:4 BSB — MannaFest

Job 37:4

Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty; And he restraineth not the lightnings when his voice is heard.

KJV

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

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Commentary

3 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

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

After Him a sound will roar. He will thunder with the voice of His greatness. And He will not be enquired into, when His Voice hath been heard. For the Lord doubtless turns into sorrow the life of him whom He has filled with His illumination; and the more He suggests to the enlightened mind eternal punishments, the more cruelly does He weary it with sorrow for its past wickedness; and a man grieves at what he was, because he now begins to discern the good which he was not. He hates himself, as he remembers himself to have been.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

After it a voice roareth - After the flash has been seen, the peal is heard; and this will be more or fewer seconds after the peal, in proportion to the distance of the thunder cloud from the ear. Lightning traverses any space without any perceivable succession of time; nothing seems to be any obstacle to its progress.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The thunderclap follows at an interval after the flash. stay them--He will not hold back the lightnings (Job 37:3), when the thunder is heard [MAURER]. Rather, take "them" as the usual concomitants of thunder, namely, rain and hail [UMBREIT] (Job 40:9).

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אַחֲרָ֤יו׀	'a.cha.Rav	after it	H310 →
יִשְׁאַג־	yish.'ag-	it roars	H7580 →
ק֗וֹל	Kol	a voice	H6963 →
יַ֭רְעֵם	Yar.'em	he thunders	H7481 →
בְּק֣וֹל	be.Kol	with [the] voice of	H6963 →
גְּאוֹנ֑וֹ	ge.'o.No	majesty his	H1347 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗ם	ye.'a.ke.Vem	he holds back them	H6117 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	if	H3588 →
יִשָּׁמַ֥ע	yi.sha.Ma'	it is heard	H8085 →
קוֹלֽוֹ׃	ko.Lo	voice his	H6963 →

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

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
Deuteronomy 33:26
“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
leads to
- Exodus 15:11
  Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
- Isaiah 43:11–13
  I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
- Habakkuk 3:8
  Were You angry at the rivers, O LORD? Was Your wrath against the streams? Did You rage against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?
- Jeremiah 10:6
  There is none like You, O LORD. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.
- Psalms 68:33–34
  to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
Through
Psalms 68:33
to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.
leads to
- Psalms 104:3
  laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 18:10
  He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 68:4
  Sing to God! Sing praises to His name. Exalt Him who rides on the clouds— His name is the LORD— and rejoice before Him.

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