| 37 | Job | ||
| 1 | "At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place. | ||
| 2 | Hearken 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 which we cannot comprehend. | ||
| 6 | For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth'; and to the shower and the rain, 'Be strong.' | ||
| 7 | He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work. | ||
| 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 round and round 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 him who is 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 molten 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 men cannot look 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 splendour; God is clothed with terrible majesty. | ||
| 23 | The Almighty - we cannot find him; he is great in power and 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." | ||
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