Job 37
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
1At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
2Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth.
3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
3He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon 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.
4After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard.
5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
5God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.
6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
6He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.
7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
7He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.
8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
8Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.
9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
9Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.
10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
10When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.
11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
11Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:
12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
12Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth:
13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
13Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.
14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
14Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
15Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?
16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
16Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?
17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
17Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?
18can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze?
18Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.
19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness.
19Shew us what we may say to him: for we are wrapped up in darkness.
20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ?
20Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall 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.
21But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and drive them away.
22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
22Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.
23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
23We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.
24Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
24Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him.
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