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1"At this my heart 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! Listen to the roar of his voice, to 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 heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. | 3He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth. |
4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. | 4His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard. |
5God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. | 5"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend. |
6He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.' | 6For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, 'Pour down,' then it rains profusely. |
7So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor. | 7"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do. |
8The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. | 8"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den. |
9The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. | 9"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds. |
10The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become 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. |
12At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. | 12It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world, |
13He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. | 13whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized." |
14"Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders. | 14"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still, and consider the wondrous attributes of God. |
15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? | 15Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds? |
16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge? | 16Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect, |
17You who swelter in your clothes 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 join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? | 18Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror? |
19"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our 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 anyone 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 look at the sun, bright as it is 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; God comes in awesome majesty. | 22From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor. |
23The Almighty is beyond our reach and 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, people revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?" | 24Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend." |
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