Job 37:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Heara attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. ”

• Job 37:2 - Albert 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 o...

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• Job 37:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  Hear attentively the (b) noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth. (b) That is the thunder, by which he speaks to men to waken their dullness, and to bring them to the conside...

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• Job 37:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Elihu trembles at this. Listen to the thunder. First the lightning flashes ( Job 37:3 ) then the thunder follows ( Job 37:4 f.). Job 37:2 suggests that a thunderstorm was actually taking place...

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• Job 37:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  His voice . His mouth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.

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• Job 37:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. Hear attentively - "Hear with hearing." The words seem to intimate that there was actually at that time a violent...

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• Job 37:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. Hear attentively - the thunder ("noise"), etc., and then you will feel that there is good reason to tremble...

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• Job 37:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Speeches of Elihu (concluded) 2. The thunder is frequently called the voice of God: cp. Psalms 29 . Sound] RM 'muttering.'

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• Job 37:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVI. THE DIVINE PREROGATIVE Job 35:1-16 ; Job 36:1-33 ; Job 37:1-24 AFTER a long digression Elihu returns to consider the statement ascribed to Job, "It profiteth a man nothing that he shou...

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• Job 37:2 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Light in the Clouds Job 37:1-24 As Elihu spoke a thunder-storm was gathering, and much of the imagery of this chapter is suggested by that fact. The little group listened to the sound of Go...

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• Job 37:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The description of the storm commenced in the previous chapter and is here completed. There is first the drawing up of the water into the clouds, their spreading over the sky, the strange mutterings...

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• Job 37:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (1) В¶ At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place. (2) Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth. (3) He directeth it under the whole heav...

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• Job 37:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 t...

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• Job 37:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth. Ver. 2. Hear attentively the noise of his voice ] Coniunctam commotione vocem eius, the great thunder crack...

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• Job 37:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hear attentively the noise of his voice Or, as ברגז קלו, berogez kolo , may properly be rendered, his voice with trembling. The thunder is called God's voice, because by it God speaks to the chi...

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• Job 37:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  MAN'S IMPOTENCE IN THE STORM (vv.1-5) As the storm breaks upon them, Elihu himself trembles (v.1). The thunder of God's voice calls for man's close attention and His lightning spreads over the w...

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• Job 37:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Address of Elihu. B. C. 1520.       1 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of...

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• Job 37:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  It seems not improbable, that whilst Elihu was speaking it thundered greatly, and that tempest was begun wherewith God ushered in his speech, as it here follows, Job 38:1 , and that this occasione...

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• Job 37:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  ELIHU’S FOURTH SPEECH CONTINUED Elihu continues his discourse, apparently in the midst of loud thunder-claps, suddenly issuing from the storm-cloud out of which the Almighty was about to speak,...

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• Job 37:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 37:5 . God thundereth marvellously with his voice. See on Psalms 29 . This chapter is divided from the former, in the midst of a sublime description of a storm. Job 37:22 . The golden splen...

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• Job 37:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Hear attentively the noise of His voice. What is Elihu’s message What he really contributes to the main argument of the book is, that suffering may be medicinal, corrective, fructifying, as wel...

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• Job 37:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 37:1-18 It has been already remarked that there is no natural division between Job 36:1-18 and Job 37:1-18 .—the description of the thunderstorm and its effects runs on. F...

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• Job 37:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Last Word on the Miracles in NatuRev. 1. At this, namely, the powerful exhibition of God's majesty, as just described, also my heart trembleth and is moved out of his place, springing up, gi...

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• Job 37:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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• Job 37:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Hear — It is probable that while Elihu was speaking it thundered, and that tempest was begun, wherewith God ushered in his speech. And this might occasion his return to that subject of which he had...

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