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Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

 “At this also my heart trembles
and leaps out of its place.
² Keep listening to the thunder of his voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
³ Under the whole heaven he lets it go,
and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
⁴ After it his voice roars;
he thunders with his majestic voice,
and he does not restrain the lightnings^[a] when his voice is heard.
⁵ God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
⁶ For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’
likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
⁷ He seals up the hand of every man,
that all men whom he made may know it.
⁸ Then the beasts go into their lairs,
and remain in their dens.
⁹ From its chamber comes the whirlwind,
and cold from the scattering winds.
¹⁰ By the breath of God ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen fast.
¹¹ He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.
¹² They turn around and around by his guidance,
to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of the habitable world.
¹³ Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.

¹⁴ “Hear this, O Job;
stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
¹⁵ Do you know how God lays his command upon them
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
¹⁶ Do you know the balancings^[b] of the clouds,
the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
¹⁷ you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?
¹⁸ Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a cast metal mirror?
¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
²⁰ Shall it be told him that I would speak?
Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

²¹ “And now no one looks on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
²² Out of the north comes golden splendor;
God is clothed with awesome majesty.
²³ The Almighty—we cannot find him;
he is great in power;
justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
²⁴ Therefore men fear him;
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”^[c]

Footnotes:

1. Job 37:4 Hebrew them
2. Job 37:16 Or hoverings
3. Job 37:24 Hebrew in heart

Cross references:

1. Job 37:3 : ch. 36:30, 32
2. Job 37:3 : ch. 38:13; [Isa. 11:12; Ezek. 7:2]
3. Job 37:4 : ch. 40:9; Ps. 68:33; See Ps. 29:3-9
4. Job 37:4 : Ps. 18:13
5. Job 37:5 : See ch. 5:9
6. Job 37:5 : ch. 36:26
7. Job 37:6 : Ps. 147:16, 17
8. Job 37:7 : Dan. 12:9; [ch. 14:17]
9. Job 37:7 : Ps. 109:27
10. Job 37:8 : ch. 38:40
11. Job 37:8 : Ps. 104:22
12. Job 37:9 : ch. 9:9
13. Job 37:9 : Isa. 21:1; [ch. 1:19]
14. Job 37:9 : Ps. 147:17
15. Job 37:10 : ch. 38:29, 30; Ps. 147:17
16. Job 37:10 : [ch. 36:16]
17. Job 37:12 : Gen. 3:24
18. Job 37:12 : Ps. 148:8
19. Job 37:12 : Ps. 148:8
20. Job 37:12 : [Prov. 8:31]
21. Job 37:13 : Ex. 9:18, 23; 1 Sam. 12:18, 19; Ezra 10:9; [ch. 36:31; 38:22, 23]
22. Job 37:13 : ch. 38:26, 27
23. Job 37:13 : 1 Kgs. 18:45
24. Job 37:14 : [Ps. 111:2]
25. Job 37:16 : ch. 36:4; [1 Sam. 2:3]
26. Job 37:18 : Isa. 42:5; 44:24; [Gen. 1:6]
27. Job 37:18 : [Ex. 38:8]
28. Job 37:19 : Isa. 60:2; [Eph. 4:18]
29. Job 37:22 : [Ps. 104:1]
30. Job 37:23 : 1 Tim. 6:16
31. Job 37:23 : ch. 36:5
32. Job 37:23 : Ps. 99:4
33. Job 37:23 : Lam. 3:33
34. Job 37:24 : Ps. 130:4; [Matt. 10:28]
35. Job 37:24 : [Isa. 5:21; Matt. 11:25; 1 Cor. 1:26]