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19 Tell us! What are we to say to him?
    Can we prepare our case to face him
        when our faces are in darkness?
20 Has it been relayed to God[a] that I want to talk?
    Can a person[b] speak when he is confused?”

God is Revered

21 “So then, the sun[c] is too bright to gaze at, is it not?
    The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows,[d] is it not?
22 From the north he brings gold;
    around God is awesome splendor.
23 We cannot find the Almighty—
    he is majestic in power and justice,
and overflowing with righteousness;
    he never oppresses.
24 Therefore humanity fears him,
    which none of the wise[e] can quite comprehend.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:20 Lit. him
  2. Job 37:20 Lit. man
  3. Job 37:21 Or light
  4. Job 37:21 Lit. that passes through
  5. Job 37:24 Lit. wise of heart