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21 
“Take heed and be careful, do not turn to wickedness,
For you have chosen this [the vice of complaining against God] rather than [learning from] affliction.
22 
“Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a ruler or a teacher like Him?
23 
“Who has appointed God His way,
And who can say [to Him], ‘You have done wrong’?

24 
“Remember that you should magnify God’s work,
Of which men have sung.
25 
“All men have seen God’s work;
Man looks at it from a distance.
26 
“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.(A)
27 
“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,
28 
Which the clouds pour down,
They drop abundantly upon mankind.”
29 
“Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds
Or the thundering of His pavilion?(B)
30 
“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],
And He covers the depths of the sea.
31 
“For by these [mighty acts] He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.
32 
“He covers His hands with the lightning,
And commands it to strike the mark.
33 
“His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence;
The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

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