Job 37:4-14

Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

4 After it k his voice roars;
l he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings 1 when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does m great things that we cannot n comprehend.
6 For to o the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,'
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
7 He p seals up the hand of every man,
that all men whom he made may q know it.
8 Then the beasts go into their r lairs,
and remain in their s dens.
9 From t its chamber u comes the whirlwind,
and v cold from the scattering winds.
10 By the breath of God w ice is given,
and x the broad waters are frozen fast.
11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.
12 They y turn around and around by his z guidance,
z to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of a the habitable world.
13 Whether for b correction or for his c land
or for d love, he causes it to happen.

14 "Hear this, O Job;
stop and e consider the wondrous works of God.

  1. Cross References
    Job 40:9
    Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?
    Psalms 68:33
    To him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens; behold, he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
    Psalms 29:3 - 9
    The voice of the Lord is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the Lord, over many waters.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 18:13
    The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire.
  3. Cross References
    Job 5:9
    Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
  4. Cross References
    Job 36:26
    Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
  5. Cross References
    Psalms 147:16 - 17
    He gives snow like wool; he scatters hoarfrost like ashes.
  6. Cross References
    Daniel 12:9
    He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
    Job 14:17
    My transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 109:27
    Let them know that this is your hand; you, O Lord, have done it!
  8. Cross References
    Job 38:40
    When they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 104:22
    When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens.
  10. Cross References
    Job 9:9
    Who made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the chambers of the south.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 21:1
    The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
    Job 1:19
    And behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.
  12. Cross References
    Psalms 147:17
    He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?
  13. Cross References
    Job 38:29 - 30
    From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?
    Psalms 147:17
    He hurls down his crystals of ice like crumbs; who can stand before his cold?
  14. Cross References
    Job 36:16
    He also allured you out of distress into a broad place where there was no cramping, and what was set on your table was full of fatness.
  15. Cross References
    Genesis 3:24
    He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
  16. Cross References
    Psalms 148:8
    Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
  17. Cross References
    Psalms 148:8
    Fire and hail, snow and mist, stormy wind fulfilling his word!
  18. Cross References
    Proverbs 8:31
    Rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 9:18
    Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause v...
    Exodus 9:23
    Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heave...
    1 Samuel 12:18 - 19
    So Samuel called upon the Lord, and the Lord se...
    Ezra 10:9
    Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin assemble...
    Job 36:31
    For by these he judges peoples; he gives food i...
    Job 38:22 - 23
    Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, o...
  20. Cross References
    Job 38:26 - 27
    To bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man.
  21. Cross References
    1 Kings 18:45
    And in a little while the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
  22. Cross References
    Psalms 111:2
    Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them.
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