Job 37

^{Job 37:1} “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

^{Job 37:2} Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

^{Job 37:3} He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

^{Job 37:4} Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.

^{Job 37:5} God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

^{Job 37:6} For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

^{Job 37:7} He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

^{Job 37:8} The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

^{Job 37:9} The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

^{Job 37:10} By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

^{Job 37:11} He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

^{Job 37:12} They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

^{Job 37:13} Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

^{Job 37:14} Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

^{Job 37:15} Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

^{Job 37:16} Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

^{Job 37:17} You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

^{Job 37:18} can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

^{Job 37:19} Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.

^{Job 37:20} Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

^{Job 37:21} Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

^{Job 37:22} Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.

^{Job 37:23} The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.

^{Job 37:24} Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”