✧“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place. ✧2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. ✧3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to 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. ✧5God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend. ✧6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’ ✧7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work. ✧8The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens. ✧9The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds. ✧10By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen. ✧11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them. ✧12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth. ✧13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion. ✧14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. ✧15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? ✧16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge? ✧17You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind, ✧18can you, like Him, spread out the skies to reflect the heat like a mirror of bronze? ✧19Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case when our faces are in darkness. ✧20Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to 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. ✧22Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him. ✧23The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress. ✧24Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”