Job 37:4
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New International Version (©1984)
After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
It is followed by the roar of his voice. He thunders with his majestic voice. He doesn't hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.

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

American King James Version
After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

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

Bible in Basic English
After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

Douay-Rheims Bible
After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.

Darby Bible Translation
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and holdeth not back the flashes when his voice is heard.

English Revised Version
After it a voice roareth; he thundereth with the voice of his majesty: and he stayeth them not when his voice is heard.

Webster's Bible Translation
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellence; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

World English Bible
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.

Young's Literal Translation
After it roar doth a voice -- He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard.

Geneva Study Bible

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

(c) Meaning, the rains and thunders.

Wesley's Notes

37:4 After - After the lightning, which is seen before the thunder is hard. Them - The lightnings spoken of in the beginning of the verse .

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. 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).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

37:1-13 The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a storm; and shall man only be unprovided with a refuge? Oh that men would listen to the voice of God, who in many ways warns them to flee from the wrath to come; and invites them to accept his salvation, and to be happy. The ill opinion which men entertain of the Divine direction, peculiarly appears in their murmurs about the weather, though the whole result of the year proves the folly of their complaints. Believers should avoid this; no days are bad as God makes them, though we make many bad by our sins.


Job 37:3 "Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, And His lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:5 "God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend. (NASB ©1995)

Excellence Excellency Flashes Heard Hold Holdeth Holds Lightnings Majestic Majesty Mouth Power Resounds Restrain Restraineth Roar Roareth Roars Sound Sounding Stayeth Thundereth Thunder-Flames Thundering Thunders Voice Word

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

a voice Ps 29:3-9 68:33

the voice Ex 15:7,8 De 33:26

he will 36:27-33

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