14 Listen to this, Job.
Stop and consider God’s wonders.
15 Do you know how God directs His clouds
or makes their lightning flash?
16 Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?
17 You whose clothes get hot
when the south wind brings calm to the land,
18 can you help God spread out the skies
as hard as a cast metal mirror?

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Elihu Challenges Job to Pay Attention

14 “Pay attention to this, Job!
    Stand still,
        and consider the wondrous attributes of God.
15 Do you know how God ordains them,
    and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?
16 Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds,
    the one[a] whose knowledge is perfect,
17 you whose garments are hot,
    even though the land is cooled by a south wind?
18 Can you spread out the skies like he does;
    can you cast them as one might a mirror?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:16 The Heb. lacks the one