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
1 At this, my heart became frightened, and it has been moved from its place.
2 Pay close attention to the alarm of his voice and to the sound that proceeds from his mouth.
3 He beholds everything under the heavens, and his light reaches beyond the ends of the earth.
4 After this, a noise will sound; he will thunder with the voice of his greatness, and it will not be tracked down, yet his voice will be obeyed.
5 God will thunder with his voice miraculously, for he performs great and unsearchable things.
6 He commands the snow to descend on earth, and the winter rains, and the shower of his strength.
7 He signs the hand of all men, so that each one may know his works.
8 The beast will enter his hiding-place, and he will remain in his cave.
9 From the interior, a storm will come forth, and a cold winter from the north.
10 As God breathes out, frost forms, and the waters are poured forth very widely again.
11 Crops desire clouds, and the clouds scatter their light.
12 It shines all around, wherever the will of him that governs them will lead, to anywhere he will command, over the whole face of the earth,
13 whether in one tribe, or in his own region, or in whatever place of his mercy that he will order them to be found.
14 Listen to these things, Job. Stand up and consider the wonders of God.
15 Do you know when God ordered the rains, so as to show the light of his clouds?
16 Do you know the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect sciences?
17 Are not your garments hot, when the south wind blows across the land?
18 Perhaps you have made the heavens with him, which are very solid, as if they had been cast from brass.
19 Reveal to us what we should say to him, for, of course, we are wrapped in darkness.
20 Who will explain to him the things that I am saying? Even while a man is still speaking, he will be devoured.
21 Although they do not see the light, the air will be thickened suddenly into clouds, and the wind, passing by, will drive them away.
22 Riches arrive from the north, and fearful praise reaches out to God.
23 We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.
24 Therefore, men will fear him, and all those who seem to themselves to be wise, will not dare to contemplate him.
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