While he was yet speaking, there came another and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads toward heaven.

who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea;

It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

“But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you;

so a man lies down and rises not again; till the heavens are no more he will not awake or be roused out of his sleep.

Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.

Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

The heavens will reveal his iniquity, and the earth will rise up against him.

“Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

“Dominion and fear are with God; he makes peace in his high heaven.

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

By his wind the heavens were made fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

For he looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.

Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

From whose womb did the ice come forth, and who has given birth to the frost of heaven?

Do you know the ordinances of the heavens? Can you establish their rule on the earth?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,

Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.