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Job 37 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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My heart pounds at this

and leaps from my chest.[fn]

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Just listen to his thunderous voice

and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

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He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;

his lightning to the ends of the earth.

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Then there comes a roaring sound;

God thunders with his majestic voice.

He does not restrain the lightning

when his rumbling voice is heard.

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God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

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For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,”

and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,

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serve as his sign to all mankind,

so that all men may know his work.

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The wild animals enter their lairs

and stay in their dens.

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The windstorm comes from its chamber,

and the cold from the driving north winds.

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Ice is formed by the breath of God,

and watery expanses are frozen.

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He saturates clouds with moisture;

he scatters his lightning through them.

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They swirl about,

turning round and round at his direction,

accomplishing everything he commands them

over the surface of the inhabited world.

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He causes this to happen for punishment,

for his land, or for his faithful love.

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Listen to this, Job.

Stop and consider God’s wonders.

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Do you know how God directs his clouds

or makes their lightning flash?

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Do you understand how the clouds float,

those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?

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You whose clothes get hot

when the south wind brings calm to the land,

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can you help God spread out the skies

as hard as a cast metal mirror?

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Teach us what we should say to him;

we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.

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Should he be told that I want to speak?

Can a man speak when he is confused?

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Now no one can even look at the sun

after a wind has swept through and cleared the sky.

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Out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow;

awesome majesty surrounds him.

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The Almighty ​— ​we cannot reach him —

he is exalted in power!

He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,

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therefore, men fear him.

He does not look favorably on any who are wise in heart.

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