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