Job 37

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?