Job 37:3-13

3 Debajo de todos los cielos lo enderezará, y su luz se extenderá hasta los fines de la tierra

4 Tras de él bramará el sonido, tronará su valiente voz, y aunque sea oída su voz, no los detiene

5 Tronará Dios maravillosamente con su voz; él hace grandes cosas, y nosotros no lo entendemos

6 Porque a la nieve dice: Sé en la tierra; lluvia tras lluvia, y lluvia tras lluvia en su fortaleza

7 Sella la mano a todo hombre; para que todos los hombres conozcan su obra

8 La bestia se entrará en su escondrijo, y habitará en sus moradas

9 Del mediodía viene el torbellino, y de los vientos del norte el frío

10 Por el soplo de Dios se da el hielo, y las anchas aguas son constreñidas

11 Además de esto con la claridad fatiga las nubes, y las esparce con su luz

12 Y ellas se revuelven en derredor por sus designios, para hacer sobre la faz del mundo, en la tierra, lo que él les mandó

13 Unas veces por azote, otras por causa de su tierra, otras por misericordia las hará aparecer

Job 37:3-13 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.