Bible Strands
Job 37:5
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Spoken in the midst of a discourse on God’s absolute control over atmospheric phenomena, the verse follows a reference to His unrestrained lightning and precedes a command to snow and rain.
The words — יַרְעֵם (yar.'Em) translates to “he thunders,” and נִפְלָא֑וֹת (nif.la.'ot) means “wonders,” highlighting the incomprehensible scale of the divine action described.
The thread — The assertion that God performs acts beyond human search appears in Job 5:9, Job 9:10, and Romans 11:33.
Why it lands — The text states that God executes works humans cannot fully comprehend, requiring readers to acknowledge their cognitive limits before His sovereign power.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
Cross-references
- Job 5:9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Romans 11:33 O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
- Job 9:10 He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- Isaiah 40:28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
- 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 36:26 Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
- Revelation 15:3 and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!
- 2 Samuel 22:14 The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded.
- Job 11:7 Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?