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Chapter 37
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At this my own heart quakes, and leaps from its place.
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Listen, oh listen, to the blast of his voice and the sound that blares from his mouth.
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He hurls his lightning below the span of heaven, it strikes to the very ends of the earth.
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After it comes the roar of his voice, the peal of God’s majestic thunder. He does not check his thunderbolts until his voice resounds no more.
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No doubt of it, but God reveals wonders, and does great deeds that we cannot understand.
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When he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’ or tells the rain to pour down in torrents,
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he brings all men’s strivings to a standstill so that each must acknowledge his hand at work.
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All the beasts go back to their dens, taking shelter in their lairs.
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The storm wind comes from the Mansion of the South, and the north winds usher in the cold.
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God breathes, and the ice is there, the surface of the waters freezes over.
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He weighs the clouds down with moisture, and the storm clouds radiate his lightning.
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He himself guides their wheeling motion directing all their seasonal changes: they carry out his orders to the letter all over his inhabited world.
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Whether for punishing earth’s peoples or for a work of mercy, he despatches them.
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Listen to all this Job: no backsliding now! Meditate on God’s wonders.
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Can you tell how God controls them or how his clouds make the lightning flash?
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Can you tell how he holds the clouds in balance: a miracle of consummate skill?
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When your clothes are hot to your body and the earth lies still under the south wind,
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can you help him to spread the vault of heaven, or temper that mirror of cast metal?
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Tell me what to say to him: . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Can my words carry weight with him? Do man’s commands reach his ears?
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There are times when the light vanishes behind darkening clouds; then comes the wind, sweeping them away,
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and brightness spreads from the north. God is clothed in fearful splendour:
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he, Shaddai, is far beyond our reach. Supreme in power, in equity, excelling in justice, yet no oppressor –
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no wonder that men fear him, and thoughtful men hold him in awe.
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