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"At this my heart pounds and leaps from its place.
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Listen! Listen to the roar of his voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
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He unleashes his lightning beneath the whole heaven and sends it to the ends of the earth.
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After that comes the sound of his roar; he thunders with his majestic voice. When his voice resounds, he holds nothing back.
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God's voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.
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He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain shower, 'Be a mighty downpour.'
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So that all men he has made may know his work, he stops every man from his labor.
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The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
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The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds.
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The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.
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He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.
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At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them.
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He brings the clouds to punish men, or to water his earth and show his love.
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"Listen to this, Job; stop and consider God's wonders.
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Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
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Do you know how the clouds hang poised, those wonders of him who is perfect in knowledge?
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You who swelter in your clothes when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
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can you join him in spreading out the skies, hard as a mirror of cast bronze?
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"Tell us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
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Should he be told that I want to speak? Would any man ask to be swallowed up?
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Now no one can look at the sun, bright as it is in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
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Out of the north he comes in golden splendor; God comes in awesome majesty.
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The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.
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Therefore, men revere him, for does he not have regard for all the wise in heart?"
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