2. Just listen to His thunderous voiceand the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
3. He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;His lightning to the ends of the earth.
4. Then there comes a roaring sound;God thunders with His majestic voice.He does not restrain the lightningwhen His rumbling voice is heard.
5. God thunders marvelously with His voice;He does great things that we cannot comprehend.
6. For He says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,”and the torrential rains, His mighty torrential rains,
7. serve as His sign to all mankind,so that all men may know His work.
8. The wild animals enter their lairsand stay in their dens.
9. The windstorm comes from its chamber,and the cold from the driving north winds.
10. Ice is formed by the breath of God, and watery expanses are frozen.
11. He saturates clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12. They swirl about,turning round and round at His direction,accomplishing everything He commands themover the surface of the inhabited world.
13. He causes this to happen for punishment,for His land, or for His faithful love.
14. Listen to this, Job.Stop and consider God’s wonders.
15. Do you know how God directs His cloudsor makes their lightning flash?
16. Do you understand how the clouds float,those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?
17. You whose clothes get hotwhen the south wind brings calm to the land,