GodsWord - Job - 37

37:1  "My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.

37:2  Listen! Listen to the roar of God's voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

37:3  He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven. His light flashes to the ends of the earth.

37:4  It 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.

37:5  God's voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand.

37:6  "He says to the snow, 'Fall to the ground,' and to the pouring rain, 'Rain harder!'

37:7  He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work.

37:8  Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs.

37:9  A storm comes out of its chamber. It is cold because of the strong winds.

37:10  God's breath produces ice, and the seas freeze over.

37:11  Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.

37:12  He guides the clouds as they churn round and round over the face of the inhabited earth to do everything he orders them.

37:13  Whether for discipline, or for the good of his earth, or out of mercy, he makes the storm appear.

37:14  "Open your ears to this, Job. Stop and consider God's miracles.

37:15  Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?

37:16  Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),

37:17  you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind?

37:18  Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?

37:19  Teach us what we should say to him. We are unable to prepare a case because of darkness.

37:20  Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a person speak when he is confused?

37:21  People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.

37:22  A golden light comes from the north. A terrifying majesty is around God.

37:23  The Almighty, whom we can't reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.

37:24  That is why people should fear him. He does not respect those who think they're wise."