Job 37:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַרְעֵ֤ם אֵ֣ל בְּ֭קוֹלוֹ נִפְלָא֑וֹת עֹשֶׂ֥ה גְ֝דֹל֗וֹת וְלֹ֣א נֵדָֽע׃

Transliteration

yarʿēm ʾēl bə-qôlô niplāʾôt ʿōśeh gədōlôt wə-lōʾ nēdāʿ

Grammar Details

*yarʿēm*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - thunders
*ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God
*bə-qôlô*: preposition + noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - with his voice
*niplāʾôt*: niphal participle, feminine plural - wonders/marvelous things
*ʿōśeh*: qal participle, masculine singular - doing/making
*gədōlôt*: adjective, feminine plural - great things
*wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
*nēdāʿ*: qal imperfect, 1st common plural - we know

Word Meanings

*ʾēl*: God/mighty one
*niplāʾôt*: wondrous things/marvelous deeds/extraordinary things
*nēdāʿ*: we know/we understand/we comprehend

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 5:9 : 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
Job 26:14 : 14 Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?
Job 36:26 : 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.
Eccl 3:11 : 11 He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.
Isa 40:21-22 : 21 Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22 [ It is] he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
Isa 40:28 : 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages.
Job 9:10 : 10 That doeth great things past finding out, Yea, marvellous things without number.
Job 11:7 : 7 Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
2 Sam 22:14-15 : 14 Jehovah thundered from heaven, And the Most High uttered his voice. 15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; Lightning, and discomfited them.

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