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

New Living Translation
Then comes the roaring of the thunder— the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks.

English Standard Version
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

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

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.

New King James Version
After it a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain them when His voice is heard.

New American Standard Bible
“After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightning when His voice is heard.

NASB 1995
“After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

NASB 1977
“After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice; And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

Legacy Standard Bible
After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

Amplified Bible
“After it, His voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, And He does not restrain His lightning [against His adversaries] when His voice is heard.

Christian Standard Bible
Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with his majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when his rumbling voice is heard.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His rumbling 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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In his place he will thunder with a voice of majesty, and he will not search them, because they hear his voice

Brenton Septuagint Translation
After him shall be a cry with a loud voice; he shall thunder with the voice of his excellency, yet he shall not cause men to pass away, for one shall hear his voice.

Contemporary English Version
God's majestic voice thunders his commands,

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.

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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
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.

Good News Translation
Then the roar of his voice is heard, the majestic sound of thunder, and all the while the lightning flashes.

International Standard Version
His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

JPS Tanakh 1917
After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of His majesty; And He stayeth them not when His voice is heard.

Literal Standard Version
A voice roars after it—He thunders with the voice of His excellence, | And He does not hold them back, | When His voice is heard.

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

New American Bible
Again his voice roars, his majestic voice thunders; he does not restrain them when his voice is heard.

NET Bible
After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

New Revised Standard Version
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

New Heart 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.

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.

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Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. 4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. 5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.…

Cross References
Job 26:14
Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?"

Job 37:2
Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

Job 37:3
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

Job 37:5
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

Psalm 29:3
The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a voice

Psalm 29:3-9
The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters…

Psalm 68:33
To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

the voice

Exodus 15:7,8
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble…

Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.

he will

Job 36:27-33
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: …

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Job 37
1. God is to be feared because of his great works
15. His wisdom is unsearchable in them














(4) After it a voice roareth--i.e., the thunderclap which follows the lightning-flash.

And he stayeth them not (or will not stay them) when his voice is heard.--What does this mean? We understand it, "Yet none can track them (i.e., the thunder and the lightning) when His voice is heard. They travel in paths which none can explore. Vivid as the lightning is, who shall pursue its course?"

Verse 4. - After it a voice roareth. After the lightning-flash has been seen, the thunderclap comes. In their origin they are simultaneous; but, as light travels faster than sound, unless we are close to the flash, then is an interval, the thunder following on the lightning. He thundereth with the voice of his excellency (see the comment on ver. 2). And he will not stay them when his voice is heard. The words are plain, but the meaning is obscure. What will not God stay? His lightnings? His thunderings? His rain? His hail? There is no obvious antecedent. And in what sense will he not "stay" them? Some explain, "He will not slacken their speed; "others, "He will not cause them to Cease."

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Hebrew
Then
אַחֲרָ֤יו ׀ (’a·ḥă·rāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 310: The hind or following part

there comes a roaring
יִשְׁאַג־ (yiš·’aḡ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7580: To rumble, moan

sound;
ק֗וֹל (qō·wl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

He thunders
יַ֭רְעֵם (yar·‘êm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7481: To tumble, be violently agitated, to crash, to irritate

with His majestic
גְּאוֹנ֑וֹ (gə·’ō·w·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1347: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

voice.
בְּק֣וֹל (bə·qō·wl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

He does not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

restrain [the lightning]
יְ֝עַקְּבֵ֗ם (yə·‘aq·qə·ḇêm)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6117: To follow at the heel, assail insidiously, circumvent, overreach

when
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

His voice
קוֹלֽוֹ׃ (qō·w·lōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6963: A voice, sound

resounds.
יִשָּׁמַ֥ע (yiš·šā·ma‘)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently


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