Job 37 / 42
- 1"At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
- 2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- 3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- 4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
- 5God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
- 6He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'
- 7So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor.
- 8The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
- 9The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
- 10The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.
- 11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
- 12At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
- 13He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.
- 14"Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.
- 15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
- 16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?
- 17You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
- 18can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
- 19"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
- 20Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?
- 21Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
- 22Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
- 23The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
- 24Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart? "