Job 37

  1. Verse 1. “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
  2. Verse 2. Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
  3. Verse 3. He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
  4. Verse 4. Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
  5. Verse 5. God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
  6. Verse 6. For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
  7. Verse 7. He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
  8. Verse 8. The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
  9. Verse 9. The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
  10. Verse 10. By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
  11. Verse 11. He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
  12. Verse 12. They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
  13. Verse 13. Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
  14. Verse 14. Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
  15. Verse 15. Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
  16. Verse 16. Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
  17. Verse 17. You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
  18. Verse 18. can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
  19. Verse 19. Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
  20. Verse 20. Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
  21. Verse 21. Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
  22. Verse 22. Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
  23. Verse 23. The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
  24. Verse 24. Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”