Job 37:1 (BSB)
“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.

Job 37:2 (BSB)
Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

Job 37:3 (BSB)
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.

Job 37:4 (BSB)
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 (BSB)
God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

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

Job 37:7 (BSB)
He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

Job 37:8 (BSB)
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

Job 37:9 (BSB)
The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

Job 37:10 (BSB)
By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.

Job 37:11 (BSB)
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:12 (BSB)
They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

Job 37:13 (BSB)
Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

Job 37:14 (BSB)
Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

Job 37:15 (BSB)
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Job 37:16 (BSB)
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Job 37:17 (BSB)
You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

Job 37:18 (BSB)
can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

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

Job 37:20 (BSB)
Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?

Job 37:21 (BSB)
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 (BSB)
Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.

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

Job 37:24 (BSB)
Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
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