20. Don’t be like those who wish darkness would come and hide them. They try to disappear into the night.
21. Job, don’t let your suffering cause you to choose evil. Be careful not to do wrong.
22. “Look, God’s power makes him great! He is the greatest teacher of all.
23. No one can tell him what to do. No one can say, ‘God, you have done wrong.’
24. Remember to praise him for what he has done, as many others have done in song.
25. Everyone can see what he has done, even people in faraway countries.
26. Yes, God is great, but we cannot understand his greatness. We don’t know how long he has lived.
27. “God takes up water from the earth and changes it into mist and rain.
28. So the clouds pour out the water, and the rain falls on many people.
29. No one can understand how he spreads the clouds out or how the thunder rumbles from his home in the sky.
30. Look, he spreads lightning all over the sky and covers the deepest part of the ocean.
31. He uses them to control the nations and to give them plenty of food.
32. He grabs the lightning with his hands, and commands it to strike where he wants.