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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Job 37:5

In 11 translations

BSB
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
KJV
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
WEB
God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend.
ASV
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
LSV
God thunders with His voice wonderfully, || Doing great things and we do not know.
YLT
God thundereth with His voice wonderfully, Doing great things and we know not.
DBY
God thundereth marvellously with his voice, doing great things which we do not comprehend.El
DRC
God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.
GNV
God thundereth marueilously with his voyce: he worketh great things, which we know not.
JPS
God thundereth marvellously with His voice; great things doeth He, which we cannot comprehend.
LXXE
The Mighty One shall thunder wonderfully with his voice: for he has done great things which we knew not;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
יַרְעֵ֤ם אֵ֣ל בְּ֭קוֹלוֹ נִפְלָא֑וֹת עֹשֶׂ֥ה גְ֝דֹל֗וֹת וְלֹ֣א נֵדָֽע׃
LXX-Br
Βροντήσει ὁ ἰσχυρὸς ἐν φωνῇ αὐτοῦ θαυμάσια· ἐποίησε γὰρ μεγάλα ἃ οὐκ ᾔδειμεν,

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  • Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
  • Romans 11:33O, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and untraceable His ways!
  • Isaiah 40:28Do 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.
  • Ecclesiastes 3:11He 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.
  • Job 9:10He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.
  • Revelation 15:3and 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!
  • Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
  • Job 26:14Indeed, 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?”
  • 2 Samuel 22:14–15The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded. He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.
  • Job 11:7Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
  • Isaiah 40:21–22Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the foundation of the earth? He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like…

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