14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand and consider the wondrous works of God.

15 Didst thou know when God disposed them? and caused the [a]light of his cloud to shine?

16 Hast thou known the [b]variety of the cloud, and the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

17 Or how thy clothes are [c]warm, when he maketh the earth quiet through the South wind?

18 Hast thou stretched out the heavens, which are strong, and as a molten [d]glass?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:15 That is, the lightning to break forth in the clouds?
  2. Job 37:16 Which is sometimes changed into rain, or snow, hail, or such like.
  3. Job 37:17 Why thy clothes should keep thee warm when the South wind bloweth, rather than when any other wind bloweth?
  4. Job 37:18 For their clearness.

14 “Listen(A) to this, Job;
    stop and consider God’s wonders.(B)
15 Do you know how God controls the clouds
    and makes his lightning(C) flash?(D)
16 Do you know how the clouds hang poised,(E)
    those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge?(F)
17 You who swelter in your clothes
    when the land lies hushed under the south wind,(G)
18 can you join him in spreading out the skies,(H)
    hard as a mirror of cast bronze?(I)

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