Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 1 UDB "My heart pounds when I think about that. BSB BSB: “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
2 UDB Listen, all of you, to the thunder, which is like God's voice. BSB BSB: Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
3 UDB He sends thunder all across the sky, and he sends lighting to the most distant places on the earth. BSB BSB: He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
4 UDB After the lightning flashes, we hear the thunder, which is like God's powerful voice; when he speaks, he does not keep back the lightning. 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 UDB When God speaks, it causes us to fear him and admire him, as thunder does; he does amazing things that we cannot understand. BSB BSB: God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
6 UDB He commands the snow to fall on the ground, and often he makes it rain very hard. BSB BSB: For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
7 UDB When God does that, it prevents people from working, in order that all people may know that he is the one who does these things. BSB BSB: He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
8 UDB When it rains, the animals go into their hiding places, and they stay there until the rain stops. BSB BSB: The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
9 UDB The storms come from the place in the south where they start, and the cold winds come from the north. BSB BSB: The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
10 UDB In the winter water freezes when he commands it, and the lakes become ice. BSB BSB: By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
11 UDB God fills the clouds with moisture, and lightning flashes everywhere from the clouds. BSB BSB: He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12 UDB He guides the clouds and causes them to move back and forth in order that they may accomplish all that he commands them to do all over the world. BSB BSB: They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
13 UDB Sometimes God sends rain to punish us, sometimes to water the land that he has made, and sometimes because he wants to be very kind to us. BSB BSB: Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
14 UDB Job, listen to this; stop and think about the wonderful things that God does. BSB BSB: Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
15 UDB Do you know how God commands the lightning to flash down from his clouds? BSB BSB: Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
16 UDB Do you know how God decides where to place the clouds in the sky? Can you understand all the wonderful things that God does, and how he knows everything and he knows them completely? BSB BSB: Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 UDB No, you just sweat there in your hot clothing because even the clothes you wear become very hot. Your clothing becomes hot because the heat builds up when the wind comes from the south. BSB BSB: You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 UDB Can you stretch out the skies like God does and make them as hard as a metal mirror? BSB BSB: can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
19 UDB Job, you know so much! So tell us what we should say to God; we do not know anything about how we should defend ourselves. BSB BSB: Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20 UDB Should I ask someone to tell God that I want to speak to him? No, because if I did that, he might destroy me. BSB BSB: Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 UDB You know that people cannot look directly at the sun when it shines brightly in the sky after the wind has blown the clouds away; likewise we certainly cannot look at the brightness of God. 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 UDB God comes out of the north with a light that shines like gold; his glory causes us to be afraid. BSB BSB: Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
23 UDB Almighty God has very great power, and we do not know how to go near to him. He always acts righteously, and he will never mistreat us. BSB BSB: The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
24 UDB That is the reason that we have an awesome respect for him; he does not pay attention to those who proudly, but wrongly, think that they are wise." BSB BSB: Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
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