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37:1  At this my heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
37:2  Listen to his angry voice and the rumble that comes forth from his mouth!
37:3  Everywhere under the heavens he sends it, with his light, to the ends of the earth.
37:4  Again his voice roars, his majestic voice thunders; he does not restrain them when his voice is heard.
37:5  God thunders forth marvels with his voice; he does great things beyond our knowing.
37:6  He says to the snow, “Fall to the earth”; likewise to his heavy, drenching rain.
37:7  He shuts up all humankind indoors, so that all people may know his work.
37:8  The wild beasts take to cover and remain quiet in their dens.
37:9  Out of its chamber the tempest comes forth; from the north winds, the cold.
37:10  With his breath God brings the frost, and the broad waters congeal.
37:11  The clouds too are laden with moisture, the storm-cloud scatters its light.
37:12  He it is who changes their rounds, according to his plans, to do all that he commands them across the inhabited world.
37:13  Whether for punishment or mercy, he makes it happen.
37:14  Listen to this, Job! Stand and consider the marvels of God!
37:15  Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and makes the light shine forth from his clouds?
37:16  Do you know how the clouds are banked, the marvels of him who is perfect in knowledge?
37:17  You, who swelter in your clothes when calm lies over the land from the south,
37:18  Can you with him spread out the firmament of the skies, hard as a molten 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? Can anyone talk when he is being destroyed?
37:21  Rather, it is as the light that cannot be seen while it is obscured by the clouds, till the wind comes by and sweeps them away.
37:22  From Zaphon the golden splendor comes, surrounding God’s awesome majesty!
37:23  The Almighty! We cannot find him, preeminent in power and judgment, abundant in justice, who never oppresses.
37:24  Therefore people fear him; none can see him, however wise their hearts.