LEB JOB Chapter 37

Elihu Extols God’s Majesty

• 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 ,[fn]
• 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[fn]—
• 7 he stops all human beings from working[fn]
• so that everyone whom he has made may know it .[fn]
• 8 Then[fn] 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[fn] turn around by his guidance
• to accomplish all that he has commanded them
• on the face of the habitable world .[fn]
• 13 Whether as correction[fn] or for his land,
• or as loyal love, he lets it happen.
• 14 “Hear this, Job;
• stand still and consider carefully God’s wondrous works.
• 15 Do you know how God commands them[fn]
• and how he causes his cloud’s lightning to shine?
• 16 Do you know about the hovering of the clouds,
• the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge ?[fn]
• 17 You whose garments are hot,
• when the earth is being still because of the south wind,
• 18 with him can you spread out the skies,
• hard as a molten mirror?
• 19 “Teach us what we should say to him;
• we cannot draw up our case because of the presence of darkness.
• 20 Should he be told that I want to speak?
• Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?
• 21 So then, they do not look at the light when it is bright in the skies,
• when[fn] the wind has passed and has cleansed them.
• 22 From the north comes gold—
• awesome majesty is around God.
• 23 As for Shaddai, we cannot attain him;
• he is exalted in power,
• and he does not oppress justice and abundant righteousness.
• 24 Therefore people revered him;
• he does not regard any[fn] who think that they are wise .”[fn]