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37:1  “At this, my own heart trembles and leaps out of its place.
37:2  Just listen to the rumbling of his voice, to the thunder that comes from his mouth!
37:3  He sends it out under all of heaven, his lightning to the ends of the earth.
37:4  There follows a sound, a roar — he is thundering with his majestic voice, and he keeps releasing [the lightning] even while his voice is being heard.
37:5  “God thunders wonderfully with his voice, he does great things beyond our understanding.
37:6  He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth!’ — likewise to the light rain, also to the downpour.
37:7  He brings all human activity to a stop, so that everyone he has made can know it.
37:8  Then the animals go into their lairs and hibernate in their dens.
37:9  “Out of its chamber comes the storm, with cold out of the north.
37:10  By the breath of God, ice is given, and the wide waters freeze over.
37:11  He weighs the clouds down with moisture, and they flash forth his lightning.
37:12  He, by his plans, turns them around, so they do what he commands them anywhere on earth;
37:13  he brings them forth on the earth sometimes to punish, sometimes to express his grace.
37:14  “Listen to this, Iyov! Stop, and consider God’s wonders.
37:15  Do you know how God puts them in place, how he causes lightning to flash from his cloud?
37:16  Do you know how he balances the clouds? These are marvels of him who knows everything!
37:17  “You, sweltering in your clothing as the earth lies still under a sultry south wind,
37:18  can you, with him, spread out the sky, hard as a cast metal mirror?
37:19  Teach us what we should tell him, for the darkness keeps us from organizing our case.
37:20  Is he to be told that I will speak? Can a man speak at all when he is already swallowed up?
37:21  Now people don’t see the light, which is bright in the sky; but then the wind blows and clears [the clouds] away.
37:22  Out of the north comes a golden glow, fearsome majesty surrounding God.
37:23  Shaddai, whom we cannot find, whose power is immense, in his great righteousness does not pervert justice.
37:24  This is why people fear him; he does not consider those who think of themselves as wise.”