Job 37
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Job

Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.+ 2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.+ 3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.+ 4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.+ 5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.+ 6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’+ 7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.+ 8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.+ 9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.+ 10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.+ 11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.+ 12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.+ 13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.+ 14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.+ 15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?+ 16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?+ 17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,+ 18can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?+ 19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.+ 20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?+ 21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.+ 22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.+ 23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.+ 24Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”+
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  1. a 37:20 Or speak without being swallowed up

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