Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 1 DRA At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place. BSB BSB: “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
2 DRA Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth. BSB BSB: Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
3 DRA He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon 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 DRA After it a noise shall roar, he shall thunder with the voice of his majesty, and shall not be found out, when his voice shall be heard. 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 DRA God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things. BSB BSB: God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
6 DRA He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, 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 DRA He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works. BSB BSB: He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
8 DRA Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den. BSB BSB: The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
9 DRA Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north. BSB BSB: The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
10 DRA When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly. BSB BSB: By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
11 DRA Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: BSB BSB: He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12 DRA Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth: BSB BSB: They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
13 DRA Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found. BSB BSB: Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
14 DRA Hearken to these things, Job: Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God. BSB BSB: Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
15 DRA Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds? BSB BSB: Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
16 DRA Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges? BSB BSB: Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 DRA Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth? BSB BSB: You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 DRA Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass. BSB BSB: can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
19 DRA Shew us what we may say to him: for we are wrapped up in darkness. BSB BSB: Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20 DRA Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up. BSB BSB: Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 DRA But now they see not the light: the air on a sudden shall be thickened into clouds, and the wind shall pass and 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 DRA Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear. BSB BSB: Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
23 DRA We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable. BSB BSB: The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
24 DRA Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him. BSB BSB: Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
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