Verse 5
God thundereth marvellously with his voice - This is the conclusion of Elihu's description of the lightning and thunder: and here only should chapter 36 have ended. He began, Job 36:29 , with the noise of God's tabernacle; and he ends here with the marvellous thundering of Jehovah. Probably the writer of the book of Job had seen the description of a similar thunder storm as given by the psalmist, Psalm 77:16-19 ; : -
Psalm 77:16 ; The waters saw thee, O God! The waters saw thee, and were afraid. Yea, the deeps were affrighted!
Psalm 77:17 ; The clouds poured out water; The ethers sent forth a sound; Yea, thine arrows went abroad.
Psalm 77:18 ; The voice of thy thunder was through the expanse: The lightnings illumined the globe; The earth trembled and shook!
Psalm 77:19 ; Thy way is in the sea, And thy paths on many waters; But thy footsteps are not known.
Great things doeth he - This is the beginning of a new paragraph; and relates particularly to the phenomena which are afterwards mentioned. All of them wondrous things; and, in many respects, to us incomprehensible.
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