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1"At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

1"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body!

2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

2Listen carefully to his thundering voice; to the sound that rumbles from his mouth.

3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.

3He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth.

4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.

4His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard.

5God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

5"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend.

6He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'

6For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, 'Pour down,' then it rains profusely.

7So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor.

7"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do.

8The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.

8"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den.

9The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.

9"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds.

10The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.

10From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen.

11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

11He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds.

12At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.

12It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world,

13He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.

13whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized."

14"Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.

14"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still, and consider the wondrous attributes of God.

15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?

15Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?

16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?

16Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect,

17You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

17you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind?

18can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?

18Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror?

19"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.

19Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?

20Should he be told that I want to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up?

20Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?"

21Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.

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?

22Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.

22From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor.

23The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.

23We cannot find the Almighty— he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses.

24Therefore, people revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?"

24Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend."

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