CHAPTER 37
1For this, too, my heart trembles,
and it leaps from its place.
2Hear, O hear His voice raging
and the murmur that comes from His mouth.
3Beneath all the heavens He lets it loose—
His lightning to the corners of earth.
4After it roars a voice,
He thunders in the voice of His grandeur,
and He does not hold them back as His voice is
5God thunders wondrously with His voice,
doing great things that we cannot know.
6For to the snow He says: “Be on earth,”
and rain in torrents, the rain of His mighty torrents.
7Every man He shuts in,
that all men know His deeds.
8And the beast comes into its lair,
and in its den it dwells.
9From the sky-chamber comes the tempest,
and from the winds’ dispersal the cold.
10From God’s breath the ice is made,
and wide waters turn solid.
11With heavy moisture He loads the cloud,
the thunderhead scatters His lightning,
12and round about it spins in its designs
to perform all that He charges them
on the face of inhabited earth,
13whether for a scourge to His earth,
whether for mercy, He makes it happen.
14Hearken to this, O Job,
stand, and take in the wonders of God.
15Do you know when God directs them,
and His thunderhead’s lightning shines?
16Do you know of the spread of cloud,
the wonders of the Perfect in Knowledge,
17when your garments feel warm
as the earth is becalmed from the south?
18Will you pound out the skies with Him,
which are strong as a metal mirror?
19Let us know what to say to Him!
We can lay out no case in our darkness.
20Will it be told Him if I speak,
will a man say if he is devoured?
21And now, they have not seen the light,
bright though it be in the skies,
as a wind passes, making them clear.
22From the north gold comes;
over God—awesome
23Shaddai, whom we find not, is lofty in power,
in judgment and great justice—He will not oppress.
24Therefore men do fear Him.