Job 37

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Elihu continues his speech by describing the overwhelming power of God displayed through thunder, lightning, snow, and rain that cause wild animals to seek shelter and men to pause their labor. He explains how God directs storms, forms ice with His breath, and loads clouds with moisture to accomplish His purposes across the earth. Addressing Job directly, Elihu challenges human understanding by asking if Job knows how God controls the clouds, spreads the skies, or makes the sun shine brightly after the wind cleans the skies. Finally, Elihu proclaims that the Almighty is exalted in power and surrounded by awesome majesty, coming from the north in golden splendor while remaining beyond human reach.

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¹“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. ²Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. ³He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. ⁴Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds. ⁵God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. ⁶For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ ⁷He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. ⁸The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. ⁹The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. ¹⁰By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. ¹¹He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. ¹²They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. ¹³Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion. ¹⁴Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. ¹⁵Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? ¹⁶Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge? ¹⁷You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind, ¹⁸can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze? ¹⁹Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness. ²⁰Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ? ²¹Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. ²²Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. ²³The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. ²⁴Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”

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