1 "At this too my heart pounds and leaps out of its place.
2 Hear, oh hear the roar of his voice, and the rumble that goes out from his mouth.
3 Under all the heavens he sends it forth, and his lightning to the edges of the earth.
4 After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
5 God thunders marvelously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.
6 For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth,' and to the shower of rain, the shower of his mighty rains.
7 He puts a seal on every man's hand, so that all men he has made may know his work.
8 Then the animals go into hiding and remain in their dens.
9 Out of its chamber the storm comes, and cold from the north winds.
10 By the breath of God ice is formed, and the broad waters are frozen hard.
11 He weighs down the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds spread his lightning abroad.
12 By his direction they wheel about, round and round, to carry out all he commands them over the face of the inhabited world.
13 Whether as a rod, or for his land, or for steadfast love, he causes it to come.
14 Give ear to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.
15 Do you know how God gives them his orders and makes the lightning flash from his cloud?
16 Do you understand the hovering of the clouds, the wonders of the One perfect in knowledge,
17 you whose clothes are warm when the land is still because of the south wind?
18 Can you, with him, spread out the skies, hard as a mirror of molten metal?
19 Tell us what to say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of the darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I would speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 And now men cannot look on the light when it shines in the skies, once the wind has passed and swept them clean.
22 Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed in awesome majesty.
23 The Almighty, we cannot reach him; he is exalted in power, and in justice and great righteousness he does not oppress.
24 That is why men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own heart."