Job 37:1-13 ▼

1 |My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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