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37:1  "My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.
37:2  Listen! Listen to the roar of God's voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
37:3  He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven. His light flashes to the ends of the earth.
37:4  It is followed by the roar of his voice. He thunders with his majestic voice. He doesn't hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.
37:5  God's voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand.
37:6  "He says to the snow, 'Fall to the ground,' and to the pouring rain, 'Rain harder!'
37:7  He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work.
37:8  Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs.
37:9  A storm comes out of its chamber. It is cold because of the strong winds.
37:10  God's breath produces ice, and the seas freeze over.
37:11  Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.
37:12  He guides the clouds as they churn round and round over the face of the inhabited earth to do everything he orders them.
37:13  Whether for discipline, or for [the good of] his earth, or out of mercy, he makes the storm appear.
37:14  "Open your ears to this, Job. Stop and consider God's miracles.
37:15  Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?
37:16  Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),
37:17  you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind?
37:18  Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?
37:19  Teach us what we should say to him. We are unable to prepare [a case] because of darkness.
37:20  Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a person speak when he is confused?
37:21  People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.
37:22  A golden light comes from the north. A terrifying majesty is around God.
37:23  The Almighty, whom we can't reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.
37:24  That is why people should fear him. He does not respect those who think they're wise."