¹⁴ “Hear this, O Job;
    stop and consider the wondrous works of God.^(A)
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 of the clouds,
    the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,^(B)
17 you whose garments are hot
    when the earth is still because of the south wind?
¹⁸ Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
    hard as a molten mirror?^(C)
19 Teach us what we shall say to him;
    we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
    Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?
²¹ Now, no one can look 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;
    around God is awesome majesty.
²³ The Almighty^[a]—we cannot find him;
    he is great in power and justice,
    and abundant righteousness he will not violate.^(D)
24 Therefore mortals fear him;
    he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”^(E)

²⁴ O Lord, how manifold are your works!
    In wisdom you have made them all;
    the earth is full of your creatures.^(A)
25 There is the sea, great and wide;
    creeping things innumerable are there,
    living things both small and great.
²⁶ There go the ships
    and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.^(B)

²⁷ These all look to you
    to give them their food in due season;^(C)
28 when you give to them, they gather it up;
    when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.
²⁹ When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
    when you take away their breath, they die
    and return to their dust.^(D)
30 When you send forth your spirit,^[a] they are created,
    and you renew the face of the ground.^(E)

³¹ May the glory of the Lord endure forever;
    may the Lord rejoice in his works—^(F)
32 who looks on the earth and it trembles,
    who touches the mountains and they smoke.^(G)