JOB 37 (NIV)
- "At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
- Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
- He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voices. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
- God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
- He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'
- So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor.
- The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
- The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
- The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.
- He loads the clouds with moisture, he scatters his lightning through them.
- At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
- He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.
- "Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.
- Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
- Do you know how the clouds hand poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?
- You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under south wind,
- can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
- "Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
- Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?
- Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
- Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
- The Almigty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
- Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?"
