1"My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.

2Listen! Listen to the roar of God's voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

3He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven. His light flashes to the ends of the earth.

4It is followed by the roar of his voice. He thunders with his majestic voice. He doesn't hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.

5God's voice thunders in miraculous ways. It does great things that we cannot understand.

6"He says to the snow, 'Fall to the ground,' and to the pouring rain, 'Rain harder!'

7He makes it impossible to do anything so that people will recognize his work.

8Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs.

9A storm comes out of its chamber. It is cold because of the strong winds.

10God's breath produces ice, and the seas freeze over.

11Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.

12He guides the clouds as they churn round and round over the face of the inhabited earth to do everything he orders them.

13Whether for discipline, or for [the good of] his earth, or out of mercy, he makes the storm appear.

14"Open your ears to this, Job. Stop and consider God's miracles.

15Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?

16Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything),

17you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind?

18Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?

19Teach us what we should say to him. We are unable to prepare [a case] because of darkness.

20Should he be told that I want to speak? Can a person speak when he is confused?

21People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.

22A golden light comes from the north. A terrifying majesty is around God.

23The Almighty, whom we can't reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.

24That is why people should fear him. He does not respect those who think they're wise."