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THE MESSAGE

Job 37:2

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   God Continued...;   Religion;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Thunder;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Nature, Natural;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Tale;   Thunder;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Wind;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - James and John, the Sons of Zebedee;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Thunder;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fair;   Noise;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - James;   Providence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Just listen to his thunderous voiceand the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
Hebrew Names Version
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, The sound that goes out of his mouth.
King James Version
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
English Standard Version
Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
New Century Version
Listen! Listen to the thunder of God's voice and to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
New English Translation
Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.
Amplified Bible
"Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out of His mouth!
New American Standard Bible
"Listen closely to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.
World English Bible
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, The sound that goes out of his mouth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare the sound of his voyce, and the noyse that goeth out of his mouth.
Legacy Standard Bible
Listen closely to the thunder of His voice,And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.
Berean Standard Bible
Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
Contemporary English Version
when I hear the roaring voice of God in the thunder,
Complete Jewish Bible
Just listen to the rumbling of his voice, to the thunder that comes from his mouth!
Darby Translation
Hear attentively the roar of his voice, and the murmur going forth from his mouth.
Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to God's thundering voice! Listen to the sound coming from his mouth.
George Lamsa Translation
Listen attentively to the raging of his voice, and the judgment that goes out of his mouth.
Good News Translation
Listen, all of you, to the voice of God, to the thunder that comes from his mouth.
Lexham English Bible
Listen carefully to his voice's thunder and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth.
Literal Translation
Listen carefully to the thunder of His voice, and the rumbling that comes out from His mouth.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Heare then the sounde of his voyce, and the noyse yt goeth out of his mouth.
American Standard Version
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear attentively the noise of His voice, and the sound that goeth out of His mouth.
King James Version (1611)
Heare attentiuely the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare then the sounde of his voyce, & the noyse that goeth out of his mouth.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear thou a report by the anger of the Lord’s wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth.
English Revised Version
Hearken ye unto the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It schal here an heryng in the feerdfulnesse of his vois, and a sown comynge forth of his mouth.
Update Bible Version
Hear carefully the noise of his voice, And the sound that goes out of his mouth.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.
New King James Version
Hear attentively the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
New Living Translation
Listen carefully to the thunder of God's voice as it rolls from his mouth.
New Life Bible
Listen to the thunder of His voice and the noise that comes from His mouth.
New Revised Standard
Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear! oh hear! the raging of his voice, A growling sound also, out of his mouth, goeth forth;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth.
Revised Standard Version
Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
Hearken diligently to the trembling of His voice, Yea, the sound from His mouth goeth forth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Listen closely to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

Contextual Overview

1"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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hear attentively: Heb. Hear in hearing

the noise: Job 37:5, Job 36:29, Job 36:33, Job 38:1, Exodus 19:16-19, Psalms 104:7

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:14 - thundered Job 13:2 - General Psalms 29:3 - thundereth Psalms 148:8 - Fire Isaiah 30:30 - his glorious voice Jeremiah 10:13 - uttereth Jeremiah 51:16 - he uttereth Ezekiel 1:24 - as the voice Ezekiel 10:5 - the voice John 12:29 - thundered Acts 7:32 - Then

Cross-References

Genesis 5:1
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.
Genesis 6:9
This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 10:1
This is the family tree of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. After the flood, they themselves had sons.
Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she wasn't having any more children, she gave her maid Zilpah to Jacob for a wife. Zilpah had a son for Jacob. Leah said, "How fortunate!" and she named him Gad (Lucky). When Leah's maid Zilpah had a second son for Jacob, Leah said, "A happy day! The women will congratulate me in my happiness." So she named him Asher (Happy).
Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat their supper. Looking up, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites on their way from Gilead, their camels loaded with spices, ointments, and perfumes to sell in Egypt. Judah said, "Brothers, what are we going to get out of killing our brother and concealing the evidence? Let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let's not kill him—he is, after all, our brother, our own flesh and blood." His brothers agreed.
1 Corinthians 1:11
I bring this up because some from Chloe's family brought a most disturbing report to my attention—that you're fighting among yourselves! I'll tell you exactly what I was told: You're all picking sides, going around saying, "I'm on Paul's side," or "I'm for Apollos," or "Peter is my man," or "I'm in the Messiah group."
1 Corinthians 5:1
I also received a report of scandalous sex within your church family, a kind that wouldn't be tolerated even outside the church: One of your men is sleeping with his stepmother. And you're so above it all that it doesn't even faze you! Shouldn't this break your hearts? Shouldn't it bring you to your knees in tears? Shouldn't this person and his conduct be confronted and dealt with?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear attentively the noise of his voice,.... Of the voice of God in the clouds; and of thunder, which is his voice, Job 40:9. Elihu being affected with it himself, exhorts the company about him to hearken and listen to it, and learn something from it;

and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth: as the former clause may have respect to loud thunder, a more violent crack or clap of it; so this may intend some lesser whispers and murmurs of it at a distance; or a rumbling noise in the clouds before they burst; since the word is sometimes used for private meditation. Now the voice of God, whether in his works of nature, or in the dispensations of his providence, or in his word; whether in the thunder of the law, or in the still sound of the Gospel, is to be attentively hearkened to; because it is the voice of God, the voice of the God of glory, majestic and powerful, and is attended with various effects; of which see Psalms 29:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear attentively - Margin, as in Hebrew “hear in hearing;” that is, bear with attention. It has been supposed by many, and not without probability, that the tempest was already seen rising, out of which God was to address Job Job 38:0, and that Elihu here calls the special attention of his hearers to the gathering storm, and to the low muttering thunder in the distance.

The noise of his voice - Thunder is often represented as the voice of God, and this was one of the most natural of all suppositions when its nature was little understood, and is at all times a beautiful poetic conception; see the whole of Psalms 29:1-11. The word rendered “noise” (רגז rôgez), means properly “commotion,” that which is fitted to produce perturbation, or disquiet (see Job 3:17, Job 3:26; Isaiah 14:3), and is used here to denote the commotion, or “raging” of thunder.

And the sound - The word used here (הגה hegeh) means properly a “muttering growling” - as of thunder. It is often used to denote sighing, moaning, and meditation, in contradistinction from clear enunciation. Here it refers to the thunder which seems to mutter or growl in the sky.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 37:2. 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 38:1.

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. The whole is represented as the voice of God himself, and the thunder is immediately issuing from his mouth.


 
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