Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.
2. the sound that goeth ] Or, the muttering. The thunder is the voice of God, going forth out of His mouth.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Hear attentively – Margin, as in Hebrew hear in hearing; that is, bear with attention. It has been supposed by many, and not without probability, that the tempest was already seen rising, out of which God was to address Job Job 38, and that Elihu here calls the special attention of his hearers to the gathering storm, and to the low muttering thunder in the distance.
The noise of his voice – Thunder is often represented as the voice of God, and this was one of the most natural of all suppositions when its nature was little understood, and is at all times a beautiful poetic conception; see the whole of Psa 29:1-11. The word rendered noise ( rogez), means properly commotion, that which is fitted to produce perturbation, or disquiet (see Job 3:17, Job 3:26; Isa 14:3), and is used here to denote the commotion, or raging of thunder.
And the sound – The word used here ( hegeh) means properly a muttering growling – as of thunder. It is often used to denote sighing, moaning, and meditation, in contradistinction from clear enunciation. Here it refers to the thunder which seems to mutter or growl in the sky.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 2. Hear attentively] “Hear with hearing.” The words seem to intimate that there was actually at that time a violent storm of thunder and lightning, and that the successive peals were now breaking over the house, and the lightning flashing before their eyes. The storm continued till Elihu had finished, and out of that storm the Almighty spoke. See the beginning of the succeeding chapter. See Clarke on Job 38:1.
The noise of his voice] The sudden clap.
And the sound that goeth out.] The peal or continued rattling, pounding, and thumping, to the end of the peal. The whole is represented as the voice of God himself, and the thunder is immediately issuing from his mouth.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
It seems not improbable, that whilst Elihu was speaking it thundered greatly, and that tempest was begun wherewith God ushered in his speech, as it here follows, Job 38:1, and that this occasioned his return to that subject of which he had discoursed before, and his exhortation to them to mind it with deeper attention.
The noise of his voice; or, his voice (to wit, the thunder, which is called a voice, Exo 20:18, and Gods voice, Psa 29:4) with trembling; because the thunder is an effect or evidence of Gods mighty power, and ofttimes of his anger also. The sound that goeth out of his mouth; as the voice (and thunder is Gods voice) goeth out of mans mouth. Or, that is produced by Gods word or command, which is oft signified by his mouth.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
2. Hear attentivelythethunder (noise), &c., and then you will feel that there is goodreason to tremble.
soundmutteringof the thunder.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Hear attentively the noise of his voice,…. Of the voice of God in the clouds; and of thunder, which is his voice, Job 40:9. Elihu being affected with it himself, exhorts the company about him to hearken and listen to it, and learn something from it;
and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth: as the former clause may have respect to loud thunder, a more violent crack or clap of it; so this may intend some lesser whispers and murmurs of it at a distance; or a rumbling noise in the clouds before they burst; since the word is sometimes used for private meditation. Now the voice of God, whether in his works of nature, or in the dispensations of his providence, or in his word; whether in the thunder of the law, or in the still sound of the Gospel, is to be attentively hearkened to; because it is the voice of God, the voice of the God of glory, majestic and powerful, and is attended with various effects; of which see Ps 29:3.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
2. Attentively The Hebrew text repeats the preceding word, as in the margin, and may be read, “Hear, O hear.”
The sound signifies, also, a murmur (thus Maurer) or a thought. “We spend our years as a tale,”
(as a thought.) Psa 90:9. The thunder was the voice, the thought, of God. In the startled language, “Hear, O hear,” Elihu directs attention to the low-voiced, muttering thunder rolling along the sky.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 37:2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.
Ver. 2. Hear attentively the noise of his voice ] Coniunctam commotione vocem eius, the great thunder crack that now is; that angry noise, as the word signifieth. Hear in hearing; you cannot but hear it with the ears of your bodies, hear it also with the ears of your minds; tremble and sin not; contrary to the course of most men, who sin and tremble not, drowning the noise of their consciences, as the old Italians did the thunder, by ringing their greatest bells, discharging their Roaring Megs, a huge piece of ordnance. &c. But what saith Elihu here to his hearers? Audite, audite, audite etiam atque etiam, contremiscetis et vos, vos testes adhibeo, as Mercer paraphraseth it out of Kimchi: Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye again and again, and then ye also will tremble. I take you to witness; whether ye consider his greater thunder claps ringing and roaring in your ears, see Psa 29:4 ; Psa 87:7 , or the lesser rumblings, called here Murmur vel mussitationem, vel habitum, citra quem sermo non profertur; the sound, or breath, that goeth out of his mouth. All is ascribed to God; though naturalists tell us, and truly, that there are second causes of thunder and lightning (Aristot. Pliny); wherein, nevertheless, we must not stick, but give God the glory of his majesty, as David teacheth, Psa 29:1-3 , and as blind heathens did, when they called their Iove Altitonantem, the high thunderer. The best philosophy in this point is to hear God Almighty by his thunder speaking to us from heaven as if he were present; and to see him in his lightnings, as if he cast his eyes upon us to see what we had been doing. His eyes are as a flaming fire, Rev 1:14 , and the school of nature teacheth, that the fiery eye seeth extra mittendo, by sending out a ray.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
His voice. His mouth. Figure of speech Anthropopatheia. App-6.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Hear attentively: Heb. Hear in hearing
the noise: Job 37:5, Job 36:29, Job 36:33, Job 38:1, Exo 19:16-19, Psa 104:7
Reciprocal: 2Sa 22:14 – thundered Job 13:2 – General Psa 29:3 – thundereth Psa 148:8 – Fire Isa 30:30 – his glorious voice Jer 10:13 – uttereth Jer 51:16 – he uttereth Eze 1:24 – as the voice Eze 10:5 – the voice Joh 12:29 – thundered Act 7:32 – Then
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 37:2. Hear attentively the noise of his voice Or, as , berogez kolo, may properly be rendered, his voice with trembling. The thunder is called Gods voice, because by it God speaks to the children of men to fear before him: and the sound that goeth out of his mouth That is produced by his word or command. Poole, Henry, and divers other commentators, have thought it probable that, at this time, while Elihu was speaking, it thundered greatly, and that the tempest was begun wherewith God ushered in his speech, as it follows, Job 38:1. And this, they suppose, might occasion Elihus return to that subject, of which he had discoursed before. Bishop Patrick thus paraphrases this verse: Hearken, I beseech you, seriously to the horrible noise which comes out of some of those clouds, and it will astonish you also. The smallest murmurs of it are so dreadful, that it may be fitly styled the voice of God calling men to stand in awe of him.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
37:2 Hear attentively the {b} noise of his voice, and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth.
(b) That is the thunder, by which he speaks to men to waken their dullness, and to bring them to the consideration of his works.