Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

¹“At this also my heart trembles

and leaps out of its place.

²Keep listening to the thunder of his voice

and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

³Under the whole heaven he lets it go,

and his ilightning to the jcorners of the earth.

⁴After it khis voice roars;

lhe thunders with his majestic voice,

and he does not restrain the lightnings1 when his voice is heard.

⁵God thunders wondrously with his voice;

he does mgreat things that we cannot ncomprehend.

⁶For to othe snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’

likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.

⁷He pseals up the hand of every man,

that all men whom he made may qknow it.

⁸Then the beasts go into their rlairs,

and remain in their sdens.

⁹From tits chamber ucomes the whirlwind,

and vcold from the scattering winds.

¹⁰By the breath of God wice is given,

and xthe broad waters are frozen fast.

¹¹He loads the thick cloud with moisture;

the clouds scatter his lightning.

¹²They yturn around and around by his zguidance,

zto accomplish all that he commands them

on the face of athe habitable world.

¹³Whether for bcorrection or for his cland

or for dlove, he causes it to happen.

¹⁴“Hear this, O Job;

stop and econsider the wondrous works of God.

¹⁵Do you know how God lays his command upon them

and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

¹⁶Do you know the balancings2 of the clouds,

the wondrous works of him who is fperfect in knowledge,

¹⁷you whose garments are hot

when the earth is still because of the south wind?

¹⁸Can you, like him, gspread out the skies,

hard as a cast metal hmirror?

¹⁹Teach us what we shall say to him;

we cannot draw up our case because of idarkness.

²⁰Shall 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.

²²Out of the north comes golden splendor;

God is clothed with jawesome majesty.

²³The Almighty—we kcannot find him;

he is lgreat in power;

mjustice and abundant righteousness he will not nviolate.

²⁴Therefore men ofear him;

he does not regard any who are pwise in their own conceit.”3