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¹ My heart^(C1) pounds at this² Just listen to his thunderous voice
and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.³ He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;
his lightning to the ends^(C1) of the earth.

⁴ Then there comes a roaring sound;
God thunders^(C1) with his majestic voice.
He does not restrain the lightning
when his rumbling voice is heard.⁵ God thunders wondrously with his voice;
he does great things that we cannot comprehend.⁶ For he says to the snow,^(C1) “Fall to the earth,”
and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,⁷ serve as his sign to all mankind,
so that all men may know his work.⁸ The wild animals enter their lairs
and stay in their dens.^(C1)9 The windstorm comes from its chamber,
and the cold from the driving north winds.¹⁰ Ice is formed by the breath of God,^(C1)
and watery expanses are frozen.¹¹ He saturates clouds with moisture;^(C1)
he scatters his lightning through them.¹² They swirl about,
turning round and round at his direction,
accomplishing everything he commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.¹³ He causes this to happen for punishment,
for his land, or for his faithful love.

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?¹⁹ Teach us what we should say to him;^(C1)
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
Can a man speak when he is confused?²¹ Now no one can even look at the sun
when it is in the skies,
after a wind has swept through and cleared the clouds away.^(F1)22 Yet out of the north he comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome^(C1) majesty surrounds him.²³ The Almighty—we cannot reach him—
he is exalted in power!
He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness,²⁴ therefore, men fear him.
He does not look favorably on any who are wise^(C1) in heart.