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“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. |
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Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. |
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He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. |
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Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. |
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God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. |
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For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ |
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He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. |
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The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. |
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The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. |
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By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. |
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He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. |
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They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. |
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Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion. |
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Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. |
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Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? |
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Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge? |
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You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind, |
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can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze? |
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Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness. |
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Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up? |
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Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. |
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Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. |
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The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. |
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Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.” |
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