Job 37:1-12

1My heart pounds at this and leaps from my chest.

2Just listen to his thunderous voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

3He lets it loose beneath the entire sky; his lightning to the ends of the earth.

4Then there comes a roaring sound; God thunders with his majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when his rumbling voice is heard.

5God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

6For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,

7serve as his sign to all mankind, so that all men may know his work.

8The wild animals enter their lairs and stay in their dens.

9The windstorm comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.

10Ice is formed by the breath of God, and watery expanses are frozen.

11He saturates clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them.

12They swirl about, turning round and round at his direction, accomplishing everything he commands them over the surface of the inhabited world.