| Berean Study Bible | International Standard Version |
| 1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. | 1"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body! |
| 2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. | 2Listen carefully to his thundering voice; to the sound that rumbles from his mouth. |
| 3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. | 3He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth. |
| 4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. | 4His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard. |
| 5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. | 5"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend. |
| 6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ | 6For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, 'Pour down,' then it rains profusely. |
| 7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. | 7"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do. |
| 8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. | 8"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den. |
| 9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. | 9"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds. |
| 10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. | 10From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen. |
| 11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. | 11He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds. |
| 12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. | 12It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world, |
| 13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion. | 13whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized." |
| 14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. | 14"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still, and consider the wondrous attributes of God. |
| 15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? | 15Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds? |
| 16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge? | 16Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect, |
| 17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind, | 17you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind? |
| 18can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze? | 18Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror? |
| 19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness. | 19Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness? |
| 20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up? | 20Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?" |
| 21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. | 21"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not? |
| 22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. | 22From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor. |
| 23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. | 23We cannot find the Almighty— he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses. |
| 24Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.” | 24Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend." |
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