1At 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 lightning to the corners of the earth.4After it a voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice, and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.5God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.6For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.7He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.8Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.9From its chamber comes the whirlwind, and cold from the scattering winds.10By the breath of God ice is given, and the broad waters are frozen fast.11He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.12They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world:13whether for correction or for his land or for steadfast love, he causes it to happen.14“Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.15Do you know how God lays his command upon them and makes the lightning flash from his cloud?16Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,17you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?18Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?19Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot set our words in order because of darkness.20Should he be told that I would speak? Or does a man wish to be swallowed up?21Now no one can look 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; around God is awesome majesty.23The Almighty—we cannot find him; he is great in power; justice and abundant righteousness he will not violate.24Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”