Old Testament · BSB
Job 37
Berean Standard Bible · 24 verses
- “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
- God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
- For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
- He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
- The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
- The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
- By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
- He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
- Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
- Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
- Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
- Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
- You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
- can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
- Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
- Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
- Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
- Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
- The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”