Elihu being affected with it himself, exhorts the company about him to hearken and listen to it, and learn something from it;and the sound [that] goeth out of his mouth: as the former clause may have respect to loud thunder, a more violent crack or clap of it; so this may intend some lesser whispers and murmurs of it at a distance; or a rumbling noise in the clouds before they burst; since the word is sometimes used for private meditation.
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Job 40:9
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