Job 37
37
Elihu Continues: God’s Ways Are Beyond Human Understanding
1“My heart pounds because of this
and jumps out of its place.
2Listen! Listen to the roar of God’s voice,
to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven.
His light flashes to the ends of the earth.
4It is followed by the roar of his voice.
He thunders with his majestic voice.
He doesn’t hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.
5God’s voice thunders in miraculous ways.
It does great things that we cannot understand.
6“He says to the snow, ‘Fall to the ground,’
and to the pouring rain, ‘Rain harder!’
7He makes it impossible to do anything #37:7 Or “He seals up every person’s hand.”
so that people will recognize his work.
8Animals go into their dens
and stay in their lairs.
9A storm comes out of its chamber.
It is cold because of the strong winds.
10God’s breath produces ice,
and the seas freeze over.
11Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture
and scatters his lightning from the clouds.
12He guides the clouds as they churn round and round
over the face of the inhabited earth
to do everything he orders them.
13Whether for discipline,
or for ⌞the good of⌟ his earth,
or out of mercy,
he makes the storm appear.
14“Open your ears to this, Job.
Stop and consider God’s miracles.
15Do you know how God controls them
and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?
16Do you know how the clouds drift
(these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),
17you whose clothes are hot and sweaty,
when the earth is calm under a south wind?
18Can you stretch out the skies with him
and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?
19Teach us what we should say to him.
We are unable to prepare ⌞a case⌟ because of darkness.
20Should he be told that I want to speak?
Can a person speak when he is confused?
21People can’t look at the sun
when it’s bright among the clouds
or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.
22A golden light comes from the north.
A terrifying majesty is around God.
23The Almighty, whom we can’t reach,
is great in power and judgment,
has more than enough righteousness,
and does not oppress.
24That is why people should fear him.
He does not respect those who think they’re wise.”
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Job 37
37
1My heart#Jb 15:35; 32:19; Pr 20:27,30 pounds at this
and leaps from my chest.#37:1 Lit from its place
2Just listen to his thunderous voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
3He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;
his lightning to the ends#Jb 38:13; Is 11:12; Ezk 7:2 of the earth.
4Then there comes a roaring sound;
God thunders#Jb 40:9; Ps 18:3; 29:3 with his majestic voice.
He does not restrain the lightning
when his rumbling voice is heard.
5God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
6For he says to the snow,#Jb 6:16; 24:19; 38:22 “Fall to the earth,”
and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,
7serve as his sign to all mankind,
so that all men may know his work.
8The wild animals enter their lairs
and stay in their dens.#Jb 38:40; Ps 104:22; Am 3:4
9The windstorm comes from its chamber,
and the cold from the driving north winds.
10Ice is formed by the breath of God,#2Sm 22:21; Jb 4:9; Is 30:33
and watery expanses are frozen.
11He saturates clouds with moisture;#Jb 26:8; 36:29; 38:9
he scatters his lightning through them.
12They swirl about,
turning round and round at his direction,
accomplishing everything he commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.
13He causes this to happen for punishment,
for his land, or for his faithful love.
14Listen to this, Job.
Stop and consider God’s wonders.
15Do you know how God directs his clouds
or makes their lightning flash?
16Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of him who has perfect knowledge?
17You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,
18can you help God spread out the skies
as hard as a cast metal mirror?
19Teach us what we should say to him;#Jb 9:3,14; 40:2; Jms 1:5
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
20Should he be told that I want to speak?
Can a man speak when he is confused?
21Now no one can even look at the sun
after a wind has swept through and cleared the sky.
22Out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome#Ex 15:11; Dt 7:21; Hab 3:2 majesty surrounds him.
23The Almighty — we cannot reach him —
he is exalted in power!
He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,
24therefore, men fear him.
He does not look favorably on any who are wise#Pr 3:7; 26:5,12,16; 28:11 in heart.
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