Job 37

¹ At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.

² Keep listening to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

³ Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

⁴ After it his voice roars;
he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

⁵ God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

⁶ For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,'
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

⁷ He seals up the hand of every man,
that all men whom he made may know it.

⁸ Then the beasts go into their lairs
and remain in their dens.

⁹ From its chamber comes the whirlwind,
and cold from the scattering winds.

¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen fast.

¹¹ He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.

¹² They turn around and around by his guidance,
to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of the habitable world.

¹³ Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.

¹⁴ Hear this, O Job;
stop and consider the wondrous works of God.

¹⁵ Do you know how God lays his command upon them
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

¹⁶ Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of the one perfect in knowledge?

¹⁷ you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?

¹⁸ Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a cast metal mirror?

¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

²⁰ Shall it be told him that I would speak?
Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

²¹ And now no one looks on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.

²² Out of the north comes golden splendor;
God is clothed with awesome majesty.

²³ The Almighty — we cannot find him;
he is great in power;
justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

²⁴ Therefore men fear him;
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.