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37:1  My heart pounds at this and leaps from my chest.
37:2  Just listen to his thunderous voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
37:3  He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; his lightning to the ends of the earth.
37:4  Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with his majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when his rumbling voice is heard.
37:5  God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
37:6  For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,
37:7  serve as his sign to all mankind, so that all men may know his work.
37:8  The wild animals enter their lairs and stay in their dens.
37:9  The windstorm comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
37:10  Ice is formed by the breath of God, and watery expanses are frozen.
37:11  He saturates clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
37:12  They swirl about, turning round and round at his direction, accomplishing everything he commands them over the surface of the inhabited world.
37:13  He causes this to happen for punishment, for his land, or for his faithful love.
37:14  Listen to this, Job. Stop and consider God’s wonders.
37:15  Do you know how God directs his clouds or makes their lightning flash?
37:16  Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?
37:17  You whose clothes get hot when the south wind brings calm to the land,
37:18  can you help God spread out the skies as hard as a cast metal mirror?
37:19  Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
37:20  Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a man speak when he is confused?
37:21  Now no one can even look at the sun after a wind has swept through and cleared the sky.
37:22  Out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow; awesome majesty surrounds him.
37:23  The Almighty—we cannot reach him— he is exalted in power! He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,
37:24  therefore, men fear him. He does not look favorably on any who are wise in heart.