14 “Hear this, O Job;
    stop and (A)consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Do you know how God lays his command upon them
    and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
16 Do you know the balancings[a] of the clouds,
    the wondrous works of him who is (B)perfect in knowledge,
17 you whose garments are hot
    when the earth is still because of the south wind?
18 Can you, like him, (C)spread out the skies,
    hard as a cast metal (D)mirror?
19 Teach us what we shall say to him;
    we cannot draw up our case because of (E)darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I would speak?
    Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?

21 “And now no one looks on the light
    when it is bright in the skies,
    when the wind has passed and cleared them.
22 Out of the north comes golden splendor;
    God is clothed with (F)awesome majesty.
23 The Almighty—we (G)cannot find him;
    he is (H)great in power;
    (I)justice and abundant righteousness he will not (J)violate.
24 Therefore men (K)fear him;
    he does not regard any who are (L)wise in their own conceit.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 37:16 Or hoverings
  2. Job 37:24 Hebrew in heart

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