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God thundereth marvellously with his voice - This is the conclusion of Elihu’s description of the lightning and thunder: and here only should chapter 36 have ended. He began, Job 36:29, with the noise of God’s tabernacle; and he ends here with the marvellous thundering of Jehovah. Probably the writer of the book of Job had seen the description of a similar thunder storm as given by the psalmist, Psa 77:16-19 : -
Psa 77:16 The waters saw thee, O God!
The waters saw thee, and were afraid.
Yea, the deeps were affrighted!
Psa 77:17 The clouds poured out water;
The ethers sent forth a sound;
Yea, thine arrows went abroad.
Psa 77:18 The voice of thy thunder was through the expanse:
The lightnings illumined the globe;
The earth trembled and shook!
Psa 77:19 Thy way is in the sea,
And thy paths on many waters;
But thy footsteps are not known.
Great things doeth he - This is the beginning of a new paragraph; and relates particularly to the phenomena which are afterwards mentioned. All of them wondrous things; and, in many respects, to us incomprehensible.