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Job 37:5

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37:5God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;5

he does great things beyond our understanding.6

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Footnotes

  1. 5 The form is the Niphal participle, “wonders,” from the verb פָּלָא (pala’, “to be wonderful; to be extraordinary”). Some commentators suppress the repeated verb “thunders,” and supply other verbs like “shows” or “works,” enabling them to make “wonders” the object of the verb rather than leaving it in an adverbial role. But as H. H. Rowley (Job [], 236) notes, no change is needed, for one is not surprised to find repetition in Elihu’s words.
  2. 6 Heb “and we do not know.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways;

he does great things beyond our understanding.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

NLTNew Living Translation

God’s voice is glorious in the thunder.

We can’t even imagine the greatness of his power.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;

he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

KJV 1900King James Version

God thundereth marvellously with his voice;

Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.