Job 37

₁“At this also my heart trembles

and leaps out of its place.

₂Keep listening to the thunder of his voice

and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

₃Under the whole heaven he lets it go,

and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

₄After it his voice roars;

he thunders with his majestic voice,

and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

₅God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

₆For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’

likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

₇He seals up the hand of every man,

that all men whom he made may know it.

₈Then the beasts go into their lairs,

and remain in their dens.

₉From its chamber comes the whirlwind,

and cold from the scattering winds.

₁₀By the breath of God ice is given,

and the broad waters are frozen fast.

₁₁He loads the thick cloud with moisture;

the clouds scatter his lightning.

₁₂They turn around and around by his guidance,

to accomplish all that he commands them

on the face of the habitable world.

₁₃Whether 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.

₁₅Do you know how God lays his command upon them

and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

₁₆Do you know the balancings of the clouds,

the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,

₁₇you whose garments are hot

when the earth is still because of the south wind?

₁₈Can you, like him, spread out the skies,

hard as a cast metal mirror?

₁₉Teach us what we shall say to him;

we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

₂₀Shall 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.

₂₂Out of the north comes golden splendor;

God is clothed with awesome majesty.

₂₃The Almighty—we cannot find him;

he is great in power;

justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.

₂₄Therefore men fear him;

he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”