Job 36:27-37:13

Lexham English Bible

²⁷ Indeed, he draws up the drops of water;
he distills the rain into its mist,
²⁸ which the clouds pour down;
they shower abundantly on human beings.
²⁹ “Moreover, can anyone understand^[a] the spreading of clouds,
the thundering of his dwelling place?
³⁰ Look, he scatters his lightning around him,
and he covers the roots of the sea.
³¹ Indeed, he judges people by them;
he gives food in abundance.^[b]
32 He covers his hands with lightning,
and he commands it the place at which to strike.
³³ His thundering tells about him;
the livestock also tell concerning what rises.^[c]

37 “About this also my heart trembles,
and it leaps from its place.
² Listen carefully to his voice’s thunder
and the rumbling that goes out from his mouth.
³ He lets it loose under all the heavens,
and his lightning to the earth’s corners.
⁴ After it, his voice roars;
it thunders with his majestic voice,^[d]
and he does not restrain it when his voice is heard.
⁵ “God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways;
he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.
⁶ For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’;
and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain^[e]—
⁷ he stops all human beings from working^[f]
so that everyone whom he has made may know it.^[g]
8 Then^[h] the animal goes into its den,
and it remains in its den.
⁹ “The storm wind comes from its chamber
and cold from the north wind.
¹⁰ By God’s breath, ice is given,
and the broad waters are frozen.
¹¹ Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture;
his lightning scatters the clouds.
¹² And they^[i] turn around by his guidance
to accomplish all that he has commanded them
on the face of the habitable world.^[j]
13 Whether as correction^[k] or for his land,
or as loyal love, he lets it happen.