Job 37
1 “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
Yea, at this, my heart quaketh, and starteth up out of its place.
2 Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
Hear! oh hear! the raging of his voice, A growling sound also, out of his mouth, goeth forth;
3 He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;
4 Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
After it, roareth a voice, He thundereth with his voice of majesty, Nor will he hold them back, when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;
6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards, —Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.
7 He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
On the hand of every man, he setteth a seal, that all men may take note of his doing.
8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.
9 The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.
10 By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
By the breath of GOD, is given—frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;
11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
12 They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth.
13 Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.
14 Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
Give thou ear unto this, O Job, Stay, and consider well the wonders of GOD: —
15 Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
Canst thou got to know of GOD’S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?
16 Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge?
17 You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
That thy garments should be hot when he quieteth the earth from the south?
18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
Didst thou spread out, with him, the skies, strong as a molten mirror?
19 Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
Let us know what we shall say to him, We cannot set in order, by reason of darkness.
20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
Shall it be declared to him—that I would speak? Were any man to say aught, he might he destroyed?
21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
Yet, now, men see not the light, bright though it is in the skies, when, a wind, hath passed over, and cleansed them.
22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
Out of the north, a golden light cometh, Upon GOD, is fearful splendour:
23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
The Almighty, whom we have not fully found out, is great in vigour, —Neither, justice nor abounding righteousness, will he weaken.
24 Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
Therefore, do men revere him, He will not regard any who are wise in heart.
