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title="Job 36">◄</a> Job 37 <a href="../job/38.htm" title="Job 38">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/37.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“At this also my heart trembles</span><br /><span class="indent">and leaps out of its place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Keep listening to the thunder of his voice</span><br /><span class="indent">and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Under the whole heaven he lets it go,</span><br /><span class="indent">and his lightning to the corners of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">After it his voice roars;</span><br /><span class="indent">he thunders with his majestic voice,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he does not restrain the lightnings<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew them">a</a></sup></span> when his voice is heard.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">God thunders wondrously with his voice;</span><br /><span class="indent">he does great things that we cannot comprehend.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’</span><br /><span class="indent">likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He seals up the hand of every man,</span><br /><span class="indent">that all men whom he made may know it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then the beasts go into their lairs,</span><br /><span class="indent">and remain in their dens.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">From its chamber comes the whirlwind,</span><br /><span class="indent">and cold from the scattering winds.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">By the breath of God ice is given,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the broad waters are frozen fast.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He loads the thick cloud with moisture;</span><br /><span class="indent">the clouds scatter his lightning.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They turn around and around by his guidance,</span><br /><span class="indent">to accomplish all that he commands them</span><br /><span class="indent">on the face of the habitable world.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Whether for correction or for his land</span><br /><span class="indent">or for love, he causes it to happen.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Hear this, O Job;</span><br /><span class="indent">stop and consider the wondrous works of God.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you know how God lays his command upon them</span><br /><span class="indent">and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Do you know the balancings<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or hoverings">b</a></sup></span> of the clouds,</span><br /><span class="indent">the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">you whose garments are hot</span><br /><span class="indent">when the earth is still because of the south wind?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Can you, like him, spread out the skies,</span><br /><span class="indent">hard as a cast metal mirror?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Teach us what we shall say to him;</span><br /><span class="indent">we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Shall it be told him that I would speak?</span><br /><span class="indent">Did a man ever wish that he would be swallowed up?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“And now no one looks on the light</span><br /><span class="indent">when it is bright in the skies,</span><br /><span class="indent">when the wind has passed and cleared them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Out of the north comes golden splendor;</span><br /><span class="indent">God is clothed with awesome majesty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Almighty—we cannot find him;</span><br /><span class="indent">he is great in power;</span><br /><span class="indent">justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore men fear him;</span><br /><span class="indent">he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew in heart">c</a></sup></span></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Hebrew <i>them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">16</span> Or <i>hoverings</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">in</span> heart</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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