Job 37
New International Version - Job 37 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142 37:1 'At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place. 37:2 Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. 37:3 He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. 37:4 After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. 37:5 God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. 37:6 He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.' 37:7 So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor. 37:8 The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. 37:9 The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. 37:10 The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. 37:11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. 37:12 At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. 37:13 He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love. 37:14 'Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders. 37:15 Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? 37:16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge? 37:17 You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind, 37:18 can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? 37:19 'Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness. 37:20 Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up? 37:21 Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. 37:22 Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty. 37:23 The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress. 37:24 Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart? '