Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 1 CPDV At this, my heart became frightened, and it has been moved from its place. BSB BSB: “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
2 CPDV Pay close attention to the alarm of his voice and to the sound that proceeds from his mouth. BSB BSB: Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
3 CPDV He beholds everything under the heavens, and his light reaches beyond the ends of the earth. BSB BSB: He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
4 CPDV After this, a noise will sound; he will thunder with the voice of his greatness, and it will not be tracked down, yet his voice will be obeyed. BSB BSB: Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
5 CPDV God will thunder with his voice miraculously, for he performs great and unsearchable things. BSB BSB: God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
6 CPDV He commands the snow to descend on earth, and the winter rains, and the shower of his strength. BSB BSB: For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
7 CPDV He signs the hand of all men, so that each one may know his works. BSB BSB: He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
8 CPDV The beast will enter his hiding-place, and he will remain in his cave. BSB BSB: The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
9 CPDV From the interior, a storm will come forth, and a cold winter from the north. BSB BSB: The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
10 CPDV As God breathes out, frost forms, and the waters are poured forth very widely again. BSB BSB: By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
11 CPDV Crops desire clouds, and the clouds scatter their light. BSB BSB: He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12 CPDV It shines all around, wherever the will of him that governs them will lead, to anywhere he will command, over the whole face of the earth, BSB BSB: They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
13 CPDV whether in one tribe, or in his own region, or in whatever place of his mercy that he will order them to be found. BSB BSB: Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
14 CPDV Listen to these things, Job. Stand up and consider the wonders of God. BSB BSB: Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
15 CPDV Do you know when God ordered the rains, so as to show the light of his clouds? BSB BSB: Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
16 CPDV Do you know the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect sciences? BSB BSB: Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 CPDV Are not your garments hot, when the south wind blows across the land? BSB BSB: You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 CPDV Perhaps you have made the heavens with him, which are very solid, as if they had been cast from brass. BSB BSB: can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
19 CPDV Reveal to us what we should say to him, for, of course, we are wrapped in darkness. BSB BSB: Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20 CPDV Who will explain to him the things that I am saying? Even while a man is still speaking, he will be devoured. BSB BSB: Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 CPDV Although they do not see the light, the air will be thickened suddenly into clouds, and the wind, passing by, will drive them away. BSB BSB: Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean.
22 CPDV Riches arrive from the north, and fearful praise reaches out to God. BSB BSB: Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
23 CPDV We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable. BSB BSB: The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
24 CPDV Therefore, men will fear him, and all those who seem to themselves to be wise, will not dare to contemplate him. BSB BSB: Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
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