the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Job 37:1
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"My heart pounds as I think of this. It trembles within me.
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
Yes, at this my heart trembles, And is moved out of its place.
"At the sound of his thunder, my heart pounds as if it will jump out of my chest.
At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
"Yes, at this my heart trembles, And is moved out of its place.
"Indeed, at His thundering my heart trembles And leaps out of its place.
"At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
Myn herte dredde of this thing, and is moued out of his place.
At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
Elihu Continues I am frightened and tremble all over,
Yea, at this my heart trembleth, And is moved out of its place.
At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.
"At this, my own heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
Aye, my heart trembleth at this also, and leapeth up out of its place:
"The thunder and lightning frighten me; my heart pounds in my chest.
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
At this also my heart trembleth, and is moued out of his place.
"At this my heart shakes with fear and jumps from its place.
"At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
At this also mine heart is astonied, & is mooued out of his place.
AT this also mans heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
The storm makes my heart beat wildly.
Yea, at this, my heart quaketh, and starteth up out of its place.
At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
"At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place.
At this also my heart is astonied, and moued out of his place.
At this also my heart is troubled, and moved out of its place.
My heart pounds at this
"Yes, at this my heart trembles, And is moved out of its place.
"About this also my heart trembles, and it leaps from its place.
My heart also trembles at this, and it leaps from its place.
Also, at this my heart trembleth, And it moveth from its place.
At this my hert is astonnied, and moued out of his place.
"Whenever this happens, my heart stops— I'm stunned, I can't catch my breath. Listen to it! Listen to his thunder, the rolling, rumbling thunder of his voice. He lets loose his lightnings from horizon to horizon, lighting up the earth from pole to pole. In their wake, the thunder echoes his voice, powerful and majestic. He lets out all the stops, he holds nothing back. No one can mistake that voice— His word thundering so wondrously, his mighty acts staggering our understanding. He orders the snow, ‘Blanket the earth!' and the rain, ‘Soak the whole countryside!' No one can escape the weather—it's there. And no one can escape from God. Wild animals take shelter, crawling into their dens, When blizzards roar out of the north and freezing rain crusts the land. It's God's breath that forms the ice, it's God's breath that turns lakes and rivers solid. And yes, it's God who fills clouds with rainwater and hurls lightning from them every which way. He puts them through their paces—first this way, then that— commands them to do what he says all over the world. Whether for discipline or grace or extravagant love, he makes sure they make their mark.
"At this also my heart trembles, And leaps from its place.
"At this also my heart trembles, And leaps from its place.
"At this also my heart trembles, And leaps from its place.
"At this also my heart trembles,And leaps from its place.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Job 4:14, Job 21:6, Job 38:1, Exodus 19:16, Psalms 89:7, Psalms 119:120, Jeremiah 5:22, Daniel 10:7, Daniel 10:8, Habakkuk 3:16, Matthew 28:2-4, Acts 16:26, Acts 16:29
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:33 - trembled very exceedingly Exodus 9:23 - the Lord sent Job 9:34 - let not Job 35:5 - Look Psalms 77:18 - voice Daniel 10:11 - I stood Hosea 11:10 - shall tremble Zechariah 10:1 - bright clouds Acts 7:32 - Then
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
And he said, I seek my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
At this also my heart trembleth,.... At the greatness and majesty of God, not only as displayed in those works of his before observed, but as displayed in those he was about to speak of: such terrible majesty is there with God, that all rational creatures tremble at it; the nations of the world, the kings and great men of the earth, and even the devils themselves, Isaiah 64:2. Good men tremble in the worship of God, and at the word of God; and even at the judgments of God on wicked men, and at the things that are coming on the churches of Christ. But Elihu has a particular respect to thunder and lightning, which are very terrible to many persons s, both good and bad t. At the giving of the law, there were such blazes of lightning and claps of thunder, that not only all the people of Israel in the camp trembled, but Moses himself also exceedingly feared and quaked, Exodus 19:16. It is very probable, that at this time Elihu saw a storm gathering, and a tempest rising; some flashes of lightning were seen, and some murmurs u of thunders heard, which began to affect him; since quickly after we read that God spoke out of the whirlwind or tempest, Job 38:1;
and is moved out of his place; was ready to leap out of his body. Such an effect had this phenomenon of nature on him; as is sometimes the case with men at a sudden fright or unusual sound, and particularly thunder w.
s ----κραδιη δε μοι εξω, c. Homer. Il. 10. v. 94, 95. t As it was to Augustus Caesar, who always carried about with him the skin of a sea calf, as a preservative and, on suspicion of a storm rising, would betake himself to some secret and covered place: and to Tiberius, who wore his laurel to secure him from it: and to Caligula, who, on hearing it, would get out of bed and hide himself under it. Sueton. Vit. August. c. 90. Tiber. c. 69. & Caligul. c. 51. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 15. c. 30. Vid. Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 330, 331. u "Tonitruorum unum genus grave murmur----aliud genus est acre quod crepitum magis dixerint". Senecae Quaest. Nat. c. 2. c. 27. w "Attonitos, quorum mentes sonus ille coelestis loco pepulit". Ibid.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
At this also - That is, in view of the thunderstorm, for it is that which Elihu is describing. This description was commenced in Job 36:29, and is continued to Job 37:5, and should not have been separated by the division into chapters. Elihu sees a tempest rising. The clouds gather, the lightnings flash, the thunder rolls, and he is awed as with the conscious presence of God. There is nowhere to be found a more graphic and impressive description of a thunder-storm than this; compare Herder on Hebrew Poetry, vol. i., 85ff, by Marsh, Burlington, 1833.
My heart trembleth - With fear. He refers to the palpitation or increased action of the heart produced by alarm.
And is moved out of his place - That is, by violent palpitation. The heart seems to leave its calm resting place, and to burst away because of fright. The increased action of the heart under the effects of fear, as described here by Elihu, has been experienced by all. The “cause” of this increased action is supposed to be this. The immediate effect of fear is on the extremities of the nerves of the system, which are diffused ever the whole body. The first effect is to prevent the circulation of the blood to the extremities, and to drive it back to the heart, and thus to produce paleness. The blood thus driven back on the heart produces an increased action there to propel it through the lungs and the arteries, thus causing at the same time the increased effort of the heart, and the rapid action of the lungs, and of course the quick breathing and the palpitation observed in fear. See Scheutzer, Physica. Sacra, in loc. An expression similar to that which occurs here, is used by Shakespeare, in Macbeth:
“Why do I yield to that suggestion,
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair,
And make ray seated heart knock at my ribs
Against the use of nature.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER XXXVII
Elihu continues to set forth the wisdom and omnipotence of God,
as manifested in the thunder and lightning, 1-5;
in the snows and frosts, 6-8;
in various meteors; and shows the end for which they are sent,
9-13.
Job is exhorted to consider the wondrous works of God in the
light, in the clouds, in the winds, in heat and cold, in the
formation of the heavens, and in the changes of the atmosphere,
14-22.
The perfections of God, and how he should be reverenced by his
creatures, 23, 24.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXXVII
Verse Job 37:1. My heart trembleth — This is what the Septuagint has anticipated; see under Job 36:28. A proper consideration of God's majesty in the thunder and lightning is enough to appall the stoutest heart, confound the wisest mind, and fill all with humility and devotion. This, to the middle of Job 37:5, should be added to the preceding chapter, as it is a continuation of the account of the thunder and lightning given at the conclusion of that chapter. Our present division is as absurd as it is unfortunate.
