Job 37  Lexham English Bible

37 “About this also my heart trembles,
and it leaps from its place.
² Listen carefully to his voice’s thunder
and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth.
³ He lets it loose under all the heavens,
and his lightning to the earth’s corners.
⁴ After it, his voice roars;
it thunders with his majestic voice,^[a]
and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.
⁵ “God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;
he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.
⁶ For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’;
and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain^[b]—
⁷ he stops all human beings from working^[c]
so that everyone whom he has made may know it.^[d]
8 Then^[e] the animal goes into its den,
and it remains in its den.
⁹ “The storm wind comes from its chamber
and cold from the north wind.
¹⁰ By God’s breath, ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen.
¹¹ Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture;
his lightning scatters the clouds.
¹² And they^[f] turn around by his guidance
to accomplish all that he has commanded them
on the face of the habitable world.^[g]
13 Whether as correction^[h] or for his land,
or as loyal love, he lets it happen.
¹⁴ “Hear this, Job;
stand still and consider carefully God’s wondrous works.
¹⁵ Do you know how God commands them^[i]
and how he causes his cloud’s lightning to shine?
¹⁶ Do you know about the hovering of the clouds,
the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge?^[j]
17 You whose garments are hot,
when the earth is being still because of the south wind,
¹⁸ with him can you spread out the skies,
hard as a molten mirror?
¹⁹ “Teach us what we should say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness.
²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?
²¹ So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies,
when^[k] the wind has passed and has cleansed them.
²² From the north comes gold—
awesome majesty is around God.
²³ As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him;
he is exalted in power,
and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.
²⁴ Therefore people revered him;
he does not regard any^[l] who think that they are wise.”^[m]