Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 37:4

4. After it a voice roareth: he thundreth with the voice of his excellency, and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

i. e. After the Lightning. For though the Thunder be in order of Nature before the Lightning, yet the Lightning is seen before the Thunder is heard.

Or, with his excellent, or high, or lofty Voice, both loud and full of Majesty and awfulness.

Or, delay. Heb. take them by the [illegible: 1+ letters]eel, as Iacob did Esau in the Womb, to delay or stop him from entring into the World before him.

Either 1. the Lightnings spoken of in the beginning of the Verse. But these do not stay till his Voice b[illegible: 1+ letters] heard, but come before it. Or rather 2. The Rains and storms, of which he spoke before and will speak again, v. 6.

Marginal references: Psal. 29. 3.