Job 37:3
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:3 in other translations
| BSB | He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. |
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| WEB | He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. |
| ASV | He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth. |
| YLT | Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light is over the skirts of the earth. |
| DARBY | He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth. |
| BBE | He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. |
| Webster | He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth. |
What does Job 37:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 37:1-13
The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a…
Job 37:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 37:3
- Job 38:13
That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
- Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
- Isaiah 11:12
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
- Psalms 97:4
His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
- Psalms 77:13
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
- Revelation 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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Context
- Job 37:2
Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
- Job 37:3
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
- Job 37:4
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
Job 37:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Debajo de todos los cielos lo dirige, y su luz hasta los fines de la tierra. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Il le dirige sous tous les cieux, et son éclair, jusqu’aux extrémités de la terre: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Er sendet es aus unter den ganzen Himmel, und seinen Blitz bis zu den Säumen der Erde. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Subter omnes cælos ipse considerat, et lumen illius super terminos terræ. |