Job 37:1-12

1At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

2Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

4After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

5God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

6For to the snow he says, ‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains, ‘Pour down.’

7He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

8The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

9A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.

10The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.