22 “God is exalted in his power.(A)
    Who is a teacher like him?(B)
23 Who has prescribed his ways(C) for him,(D)
    or said to him, ‘You have done wrong’?(E)
24 Remember to extol his work,(F)
    which people have praised in song.(G)
25 All humanity has seen it;(H)
    mortals gaze on it from afar.
26 How great is God—beyond our understanding!(I)
    The number of his years is past finding out.(J)

27 “He draws up the drops of water,(K)
    which distill as rain to the streams[a];(L)
28 the clouds pour down their moisture
    and abundant showers(M) fall on mankind.(N)
29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds,
    how he thunders(O) from his pavilion?(P)
30 See how he scatters his lightning(Q) about him,
    bathing the depths of the sea.(R)
31 This is the way he governs[b] the nations(S)
    and provides food(T) in abundance.(U)
32 He fills his hands with lightning
    and commands it to strike its mark.(V)
33 His thunder announces the coming storm;(W)
    even the cattle make known its approach.[c](X)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 36:27 Or distill from the mist as rain
  2. Job 36:31 Or nourishes
  3. Job 36:33 Or announces his coming— / the One zealous against evil

22 Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?

23 Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold.

25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off.

26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

31 For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

32 With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

33 The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

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