John Trapp on Job 37:2

Verſe 2. Hear attentively the noiſe of his voice] Conjunctam commotione vocem ejus, the great thunder-crack that now is: that angry noiſe (as the word ſignifieth) Hear in hearing; you cannot but hear it with the eares of your bodies, hear it alſo with the eares 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, &c. But what ſaith Elihu here to his hearers? Audite, audite, audite etiam atque etiam, contremiſcetis & 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 witneſſe; whether ye conſider his greater thunder-claps ringing and roaring in your eares (See Pſal. 29.4. & 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. Ariſtot. Pliny. All's aſcribed to God; though Naturaliſts tell us (and truly) that there are ſecond cauſes of thunder and lightning: wherein, nevertheleſſe, we muſt not ſtick, but give God the glory of his Majeſty, as David teacheth, Pſal. 29. and as blind Heathens did, when they called their Jove 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, &c.