Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary 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 chap. 36. have ended. He began, chap. xxxvi. 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, Psa. lxxvii. 16-19: - Ver. 16. The waters saw thee, O God! The waters saw thee, and were afraid. Yea, the deeps were affrighted! Ver. 17. The clouds poured out water; The ethers sent forth a sound; Yea, thine arrows went abroad.
Ver. 18. The voice of thy thunder was through the expanse: The lightnings illumined the globe; The earth trembled and shook! Ver. 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-13 - The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of ou thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of thes things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We mus 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 an rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a storm and shall man only be unprovided with a refuge? Oh that men woul 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 whol result of the year proves the folly of their complaints. Believer should avoid this; no days are bad as God makes them, though we make many bad by our sins. (Job 37:14-20)
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