Moff JOB Chapter 37

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Does it not make you tremble?

does it not make your heart leap to your mouth?

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Listen, oh listen to his voice so loud,

to the rumbling from his lips!

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He sends the sound pealing across the sky;

he sends his flash to the fringes of the earth.

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After the lightning comes a roar,

God thundering in his majesty;

nor does he hold the downpour back,

whenever his voice thunders.

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God lets us see his wonders;

great things he does, beyond our ken.

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He bids the snow fall on the earth,

also the heavy rains,

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that keep men within doors--

to let all mortals feel his power;

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the beasts retire into their dens,

and lurk inside their lairs.

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Storms blow out of the south,

and cold comes from the north;

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the ice forms at his breath,

and freezes the broad water hard;

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he loads a heavy cloud with hail,

and from the clouds his lightning scatters,

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darting here and darting there,

turning as he directs it,

doing whatsoe’er he bids it

over all his world,

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either smiting with a curse,

or sent in mercy.

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Listen to this, Oh Eyob, stand still

think of the wonders of God.

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when God works, do you know how?--

he makes lightning flash from the clouds?

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Do you know how the clouds are poised,

that pour a deluge when it thunders?

17 

Do you know why your clothes are hot,

when he stills the earth for the sirocco?

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Can you, like him, roll out the sky,

solid, as any molten mirror?

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Tell me, what can we say to him?

How can we argue, with our darkened minds?

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What! man to cavil at his word?

Man to charge him with confusion?

21 

Men cannot gaze even upon yonder sun,

so dazzling in the heavens,

now that the wind has come to clear the clouds,

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now radiant light streams from the northern sky;

and the Splendour of God is awful,

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the Almighty is beyond our minds.

Supreme in power and rich in justice,

he violates no right.

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For this men do him reverence,

and thoughtful men revere him.”