Job 36:22-37:12

Common English Bible

²²Look, God is inaccessible due to his power;
    who is a teacher like him?
²³Who has repaid him for his action,
    and who would ever say, “You’ve done wrong”?
²⁴Remember to praise his work
    that all of us have seen.
²⁵Every person has seen him;
    people can observe at great distance.

God’s control of the storm

²⁶Look, God is exalted and unknowable;
    the number of his years is beyond counting.
²⁷He draws up drops of water
        that distill rain from his flood;
²⁸    the clouds pour moisture
        and drip continually on humans.
²⁹Even if one perceives a spreading cloud
        and the thunder of his pavilion,^[a]
³⁰    look how he spreads lightning across it
        and covers the seabed;
³¹    for by water^[b] he judges peoples
        and gives food in abundance.
³²He conceals lightning in his palms
    and orders it to its target.
³³His thunder announces it;
    even cattle proclaim its rising.

37 Oh, my mind is disturbed by this
    and is more troubled than usual.
²Listen closely to the rumble of his voice,
    the roar issuing from his mouth.
³He looses it under the whole sky,
    his lightning on earth’s edges.
⁴After it, a voice roars;
    he thunders with a mighty voice,
    and no one can stop it
    when his voice is heard.
⁵God roars with his wondrous voice;
    he does great things we can’t know.
⁶He says to the snow, “Fall to earth,”
    and to the downpour of rain, “Be a mighty shower.”
⁷He stamps the hand of every person
    so all can know his work.^[c]
⁸The wild beast enters its lair,
    lies down in its den.
⁹The storm comes from its chamber,
    the cold from the north wind.
¹⁰By God’s breath ice forms;
    water’s expanse becomes solid.
¹¹He also fills clouds with moisture;
    his lightning scatters clouds.
¹²He overturns the circling clouds;^[d]
    by his guidance they do^[e] their work,
    doing everything he commands over the entire earth.