Job - Chapter 37 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
  • 2. Keep listening 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 that we cannot comprehend.
  • 6. For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,' likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
  • 7. He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.
  • 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 around and around 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 cast metal 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 no one looks 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 splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty.
  • 23. The Almighty--we cannot find him; he is great in power; 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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