Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.
New American Standard Bible
He thunders with His majestic voice,
And He does not restrain
King James Version
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
Holman Bible
God thunders
He does not restrain the lightning
when His rumbling voice is heard.
International Standard Version
His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.
A Conservative Version
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty, and he does not restrain [the lightnings] when his voice is heard.
American Standard Version
After it a voice roareth; He thundereth with the voice of his majesty; And he restraineth not the lightnings when his voice is heard.
Amplified
“After it, His voice roars;
He thunders with the voice of His majesty,
And He does not restrain His lightning [against His adversaries] when His voice is heard.
Darby Translation
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency, and holdeth not back the flashes when his voice is heard.
Julia Smith Translation
After him a voice shall rear; he will thunder with the voice of his majesty: and he will not leave them behind when his voice shall be heard.
King James 2000
After it a voice roars: he thunders with the voice of his excellency; and he will not restrain them when his voice is heard.
Lexham Expanded Bible
After it, his voice roars; it thunders {with his majestic voice}, and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.
Modern King James verseion
After it a voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, and He will not hold them when His voice is heard.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
A roaring voice followeth him: for his glorious majesty giveth such a thunder clap, that, though a man hear it, yet may he not perceive it afterward. It giveth a horrible sound,
NET Bible
After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.
New Heart English Bible
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
The Emphasized Bible
After it, roareth a voice, He thundereth with his voice of majesty, Nor will he hold them back, when his voice is heard.
Webster
After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellence; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
World English Bible
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
Youngs Literal Translation
After it roar doth a voice -- He thundereth with the voice of His excellency, And He doth not hold them back, When His voice is heard.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth. 4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding. 5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 68:33
To him who goes or the clouds of heaven, the heaven which was from earliest times; he sends out his voice of power.
Exodus 15:7-8
When you are lifted up in power, all those who come against you are crushed: when you send out your wrath, they are burned up like dry grass.
Deuteronomy 33:26
No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.
Job 36:27-33
For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,