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| 1"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body! | 1“At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place. |
| 2Listen carefully to his thundering voice; to the sound that rumbles from his mouth. | 2Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. |
| 3He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth. | 3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth. |
| 4His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard. | 4After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. |
| 5"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend. | 5God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. |
| 6For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, 'Pour down,' then it rains profusely. | 6For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. |
| 7"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do. | 7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it. |
| 8"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den. | 8Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens. |
| 9"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds. | 9From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. |
| 10From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen. | 10By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. |
| 11He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds. | 11He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. |
| 12It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world, | 12They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. |
| 13whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized." | 13Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen. |
| 14"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still, and consider the wondrous attributes of God. | 14“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God. |
| 15Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds? | 15Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? |
| 16Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect, | 16Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, |
| 17you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind? | 17you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind? |
| 18Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror? | 18Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? |
| 19Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness? | 19Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. |
| 20Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?" | 20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up? |
| 21"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not? | 21“And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them. |
| 22From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor. | 22Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty. |
| 23We cannot find the Almighty— he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses. | 23The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. |
| 24Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend." | 24Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.” |
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