Job 37

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

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