【Job】Chapter 37 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

37:1 At this my heart trembles and leaps out of its place,

37:2 To hear his angry voice as it rumbles forth from his mouth!

37:3 Everywhere under the heavens he sends it, with his lightning, to the ends of the earth.

37:4 Again his voice roars ? the majestic sound of his thunder.

37:5 He does great things beyond our knowing; wonders past our searching out.

37:6 For he says to the snow, "Fall to the earth"; likewise to his heavy, drenching rain.

37:7 He shuts up all mankind indoors;

37:8 the wild beasts take to cover and remain quietly in their dens.

37:9 Out of its chamber comes forth the tempest; from the north winds, the cold.

37:10 With his breath God brings the frost, and the broad waters become congealed.

37:11 With hail, also, the clouds are laden, as they scatter their flashes of light.

37:12 He it is who changes their rounds, according to his plans, in their task upon the surface of the earth,

37:13 whether for punishment or mercy, as he commands.

37:14 Hearken to this, O Job! Stand and consider the wondrous works of God!

37:15 Do you know how God lays his commands upon them, and makes the light shine forth from his clouds?

37:16 Do you know how the clouds are banked, the wondrous work of him who is perfect in knowledge?

37:17 You, whom the streams of water fail when a calm from the south comes over the land,

37:18 Do you spread out with him the firmament of the skies, hard as a brazen mirror?

37:19 Teach us then what we shall say to him; we cannot, for the darkness, make our plea.

37:20 Will he be told about it when I speak, or when a man says he is being destroyed?

37:21 Nay, rather, it is as the light which men see not while it is obscured among the clouds, till the wind comes by and sweeps the clouds away.

37:22 From the North the splendor comes, surrounding God’s awesome majesty!

37:23 The Almighty! we cannot discover him, pre-eminent in power and judgment; his great justice owes no one an accounting.

37:24 Therefore men revere him, though none can see him, however wise their hearts.

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