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37:1  “At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
37:2  Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
37:3  Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
37:4  After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
37:5  God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
37:6  For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’, likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
37:7  He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.
37:8  Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
37:9  From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.
37:10  By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.
37:11  He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
37:12  They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.
37:13  Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
37:14  “Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
37:15  Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
37:16  Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
37:17  you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?
37:18  Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast-metal mirror?
37:19  Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
37:20  Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?
37:21  “And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them.
37:22  Out of the north comes golden splendour; God is clothed with awesome majesty.
37:23  The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
37:24  Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”