Hiob 37:1-9

1 Ja, darüber erzittert mein Herz und bebt auf von seiner Stelle.

2 Höret, höret das Getöse seiner Stimme und das Gemurmel, das aus seinem Munde hervorgeht!

3 Er sendet es aus unter den ganzen Himmel, und seinen Blitz bis zu den Säumen der Erde.

4 Nach dem Blitze brüllt eine Stimme; er donnert mit seiner erhabenen Stimme, und hält die Blitze nicht zurück, wenn seine Stimme gehört wird.

5 Gott donnert wunderbar mit seiner Stimme; er tut große Dinge, die wir nicht begreifen.

6 Denn zum Schnee spricht er: Falle zur Erde! und zum Regengusse und den Güssen seines gewaltigen Regens.

7 Er lähmt die Hand eines jeden Menschen, damit alle Menschen sein Werk kennen lernen.

8 Und das Wild geht in sein Versteck und bleibt in seinen Höhlen.

9 Aus der Kammer des Südens kommt Sturm, und von den Nordwinden Kälte.

Hiob 37:1-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 37

Elihu in this chapter proceeds to show the greatness of God as it appears in other of his works of nature, which greatly affected him, and to an attention to which he exhorts others, Job 37:1,2; particularly thunder and lightning, the direction, extent, and order of which he observes, Job 37:3,4; and then suggests that besides these there are other great things done by him, incomprehensible and unknown in various respects; as the snow, and rain, lesser and greater, which come on the earth at his command, and have such effect on men as to seal up their hands, and on the beasts of the field as to cause them to retire to their dens, and there remain, Job 37:5-8; and then he goes on to take notice of wind, and frost, and the clouds, and dispersion of them; their use and ends, whether in judgment or mercy, Job 37:9-13; and then calls on Job to consider these wondrous works of God, and remark how ignorant men are of the disposition of clouds for the rainbow; of the balancing of them; of the heat and quietness that come by the south wind, and of the firmness of the sky, Job 37:14-21; and from all this he concludes the terrible majesty, unsearchable nature of God, the excellency of his power and justice; and that men therefore should and do fear him, who is no respecter of persons, Job 37:21-23.