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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 marvelously 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 men cannot even look at the sun when it is in the skies, after a wind has swept through and cleared them away.
37:22  Yet 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 oppress justice and abundant righteousness,
37:24  Therefore, men fear Him. He does not look favorably on any who are wise in heart.