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1"Now I'll conclude with this: my heart is trembling violently; it feels like it's about to leap from my body! | 1"At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place. |
2Listen carefully to his thundering voice; to the sound that rumbles from his mouth. | 2Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth. |
3He releases his lightning throughout the sky, to the ends of the earth. | 3He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth. |
4His thunder roars after it; his majestic voice will thunder; and no one can trace them once his voice has been heard. | 4After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back. |
5"God thunders with his wondrous voice; he does awesome works that we don't comprehend. | 5God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. |
6For he says to the snow, 'Fall to the earth.' He tells the rain, 'Pour down,' then it rains profusely. | 6He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.' |
7"He puts a limit to the skill of every person; to delineate all people from what they do. | 7So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor. |
8"Then a beast enters its lair and remains in its den. | 8The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. |
9"From the south, a whirlwind proceeds, out of the icy north winds. | 9The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. |
10From the breath of God ice is produced, and a wide body of water is frozen. | 10The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. |
11He also loads the clouds with moisture, scattering his lightning with the clouds. | 11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. |
12It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world, | 12At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. |
13whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized." | 13He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love. |
14"Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still, and consider the wondrous attributes of God. | 14"Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders. |
15Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds? | 15Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash? |
16Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect, | 16Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who has perfect knowledge? |
17you whose garments are hot, even though the land is cooled by a south wind? | 17You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind, |
18Can you spread out the skies like he does; can you cast them as one might a mirror? | 18can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze? |
19Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness? | 19"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness. |
20Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?" | 20Should he be told that I want to speak? Would anyone ask to be swallowed up? |
21"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not? | 21Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. |
22From the north he brings gold; around God is awesome splendor. | 22Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty. |
23We cannot find the Almighty— he is majestic in power and justice, and overflowing with righteousness; he never oppresses. | 23The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress. |
24Therefore humanity fears him, which none of the wise can quite comprehend." | 24Therefore, people revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?" |
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