Job 37

Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

1 “At this my heart also pounds ‡ Act 16:26Act 16:29Dan 10:7-8Exo 19:16Hab 3:16Jer 5:22Job 21:6Job 4:14 +4

and leaps from its place.

2 Listen closely to the thunder of His voice ‡ Job 36:33Job 37:5Exo 19:16-19Job 38:1Psa 104:7Psa 29:3-9Job 36:29

and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.

3 He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky ‡ Job 38:13Mat 24:27Isa 11:12Psa 97:4Psa 77:13Rev 11:19

and sends it to the ends of the earth.

4 Then there comes a roaring sound; ‡ Psa 29:3-9Psa 68:33Deu 33:26Exo 15:7-8Job 36:27-33

He thunders with His majestic voice.

He does not restrain the lightning

when His voice resounds.

5 God thunders wondrously with His voice; ‡ Job 5:9Rom 11:33Ecc 3:11Isa 40:28Job 9:10Job 26:14Job 36:26Rev 15:3 +3

He does great things we cannot comprehend.

6 For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ ‡ Job 36:27Job 38:22Ezk 13:13Psa 147:16-18Amo 9:6Ezk 13:11Ezr 10:13Ezr 10:9 +4

and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

7 He seals up the hand of every man, ‡ Psa 111:2Psa 109:27Ecc 8:17Isa 26:11Isa 5:12Job 12:14Job 36:24Job 5:12 +4

so that all men may know His work.

8 The wild animals enter their lairs; ‡ Psa 104:22Job 38:40

they settle down in their dens.

9 The tempest comes from its chamber, ‡ Job 9:9Isa 21:1Psa 104:3Job 38:1Zec 9:14

and the cold from the driving north winds.

10 By the breath of God the ice is formed ‡ Job 38:29-30Psa 147:16-18Psa 78:47

and the watery expanses are frozen.

11 He loads the clouds with moisture; ‡ Job 36:27-30Isa 18:4Job 36:32Mat 17:5

He scatters His lightning through them.

12 They swirl about, ‡ Psa 148:8Jas 5:17-18Jol 2:23Psa 104:24Amo 4:7Jer 14:22Psa 65:9-10Rev 11:6

whirling at His direction,

accomplishing all that He commands

over the face of all the earth.

13 Whether for punishment or for His land, ‡ 1Ki 18:451Sa 12:18-19Job 38:26-27Job 36:312Sa 21:10Exo 9:18-25Ezr 10:9Job 37:6 +3

He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

14 Listen to this, O Job; ‡ Exo 14:13Psa 111:2Psa 145:10-12Hab 2:20Job 36:24Psa 145:5-6Job 26:6-14Psa 46:10

stand still and consider the wonders of God.

15 Do you know how God dispatches the clouds ‡ Isa 40:26Job 36:30-32Job 37:11Job 38:4-41Job 28:24-27Job 34:13Psa 119:90-91

or makes the lightning flash?

16 Do you understand how the clouds float, ‡ Job 36:4Isa 40:22Jer 10:12-13Job 36:29Pro 3:19-20Job 26:8Psa 104:2-3Psa 104:24 +1

those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

17 You whose clothes get hot ‡ Job 38:31Job 6:17Luk 12:55Psa 147:18

when the land lies hushed under the south wind,

18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies ‡ Isa 44:24Psa 104:2Exo 38:8Isa 40:22Gen 1:6-8Isa 40:12Job 9:8-9Pro 8:27 +2

to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?

19 Teach us what we should say to Him; ‡ 1Co 13:121Jn 3:2Job 12:3Job 13:3Job 13:6Job 26:14Job 28:20-21Job 38:2 +5

we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.

20 Should He be told that I want to speak? ‡ Job 11:7-8Job 6:3Mat 12:36-37Psa 139:4

Would a man ask to be swallowed up ¹?

21 Now no one can gaze at the sun ‡ Job 26:9Job 36:32Job 38:25

when it is bright in the skies

after the wind has swept them clean.

22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; ‡ Psa 104:1Heb 12:29Jud 1:251Ch 29:11Hab 3:3-19Heb 1:3Job 40:10Nam 1:3 +10

awesome majesty surrounds Him.

23 The Almighty is beyond our reach; ‡ 1Ti 6:16Rom 11:33Job 36:5Lam 3:32-33Psa 99:4Job 9:4Ezk 18:23Ezk 18:32 +22

He is exalted in power!

In His justice and great righteousness

He does not oppress.

24 Therefore, men fear Him, ‡ Mat 10:281Co 1:26Isa 5:21Job 5:13Mat 11:25-26Psa 130:4Rom 2:41Co 3:19 +7

for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”