| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. | 1“At this also my heart trembles and leaps out of its place. |
| 2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. | 2Keep listening to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth. |
| 3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. | 3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth. |
| 4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. | 4After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard. |
| 5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. | 5God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend. |
| 6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ | 6For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour. |
| 7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. | 7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it. |
| 8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. | 8Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens. |
| 9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. | 9From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds. |
| 10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. | 10By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast. |
| 11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. | 11He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. |
| 12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. | 12They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. |
| 13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion. | 13Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen. |
| 14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. | 14“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God. |
| 15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? | 15Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? |
| 16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge? | 16Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge, |
| 17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind, | 17you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind? |
| 18can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze? | 18Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror? |
| 19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness. | 19Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness. |
| 20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up? | 20Shall it be told him that I would speak? Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up? |
| 21Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. | 21“And now no one looks on the light when it is bright in the skies, when the wind has passed and cleared them. |
| 22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. | 22Out of the north comes golden splendor; God is clothed with awesome majesty. |
| 23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. | 23The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate. |
| 24Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.” | 24Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.” |
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