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Job 37 Bible study: Stand still, and consider
Elihu names three purposes for what God sends, not one: "whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness" (37:13). And his storm (37:9) isn't the whirlwind of 38:1: the Hebrew has two different words.
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“Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.”
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“In 37:13 Elihu names loving kindness as one of the reasons God causes it to come.”
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What's really going on
"God thunders marvelously with his voice"
Every word of this chapter is Elihu's. His last speech opened, "Elihu also continued, and said" (36:1); chapter 37 has no heading of its own, and the next heading is "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind" (38:1). Elihu begins, "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place" (37:1). Then: "Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth" (37:2). "After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty" (37:4), and "God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend" (37:5) (tap voice, thunders). In 37:2-5 the WEB has voice five times, and in Hebrew each is qol. Elihu's He does great things has been said twice before in the book. Eliphaz spoke of God "who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number" (5:9), and Job said, "He does great things past finding out; yes, marvelous things without number" (9:10). In Hebrew does great things is the same two words in all three verses, and 37:5's marvelously is the word of 5:9's and 9:10's marvelous things (tap marvelously). The speakers differ, and each goes on in his own way; the words are shared.
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The Hebrew word behind it
פָּלָאpalasay pa-LAH
Brown-Driver-Briggs gives, among its uses, "be extraordinary, wonderful", and as a noun, "marvellous things". "God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things, which we can’t comprehend" (37:5), and "Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God" (37:14): marvelously and wondrous works are both this word. Eliphaz had it in "marvelous things without number" (5:9), and Job in the same words (9:10). In the Hebrew of Job it comes six times, and the last is Job's own answer to the LORD: "therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know" (42:3), where things too wonderful is this word.
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Job 37 Bible study questions
- 1Elihu says, "Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God" (37:14). When did you last stop long enough to notice something God made? What did it do in you?
- 2"He does great things, which we can’t comprehend" (37:5). How do you live with not understanding what God is doing?
- 3Elihu's last words begin, "Therefore men revere him" (37:24). What does reverence for God look like on an ordinary day?
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