Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty 1 UST My heart really pounds when I think about that! I feel as if it is jumping around inside me. BSB BSB: “At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
2 UST Listen, all of you, to the thunder! It is as if God is roaring! BSB BSB: Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
3 UST God makes such loud thunder that people can hear it throughout the land. God makes such bright lighting that people can see it from far away. BSB BSB: He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
4 UST After lightning flashes, we hear thunder, which sounds like God speaking very loudly. Then, after the thunder, God makes more 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 UST When we hear thunder, it is as if God is shouting in an amazing way. God does things that are too wonderful for us to understand. BSB BSB: God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.
6 UST For example, God can cause snow to cover the ground, and when he tells a rain shower to rain even harder, it becomes a downpour. BSB BSB: For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
7 UST When God makes it rain so hard, everyone has to stop working outside. This shows all people, whom he has made, what great things he is able to do. BSB BSB: He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
8 UST 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 UST Storms come from the place where they start, and cold winds come from the north. BSB BSB: The tempest comes from its chamber, and the cold from the driving north winds.
10 UST In the winter, cold winds turn water into ice. The water in lakes freezes solid. BSB BSB: By the breath of God the ice is formed and the watery expanses are frozen.
11 UST God truly fills the clouds with water droplets. He makes lightning flash from many clouds. BSB BSB: He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
12 UST He causes the clouds to move around over the places where people live so that they can accomplish everything that he wants them to do. BSB BSB: They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
13 UST God may send storms to punish people. God may send storms to water the land that he made. God may send storms to help people by providing rain to make their crops grow. God makes all of these things happen. BSB BSB: Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
14 UST Job, listen to what I am saying. Just think about the wonderful things that God does. BSB BSB: Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.
15 UST Are you able to explain how God arranges the clouds in the sky and makes lightning flash down from them? BSB BSB: Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
16 UST Are you able to explain how God is able to make clouds float in the sky? Can you understand all of the wonderful things that God does? God understands everything completely! BSB BSB: Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 UST Are you able to explain how God can bring in stifling air from the desert and make it so hot that you cannot stay cool if you wear clothes? BSB BSB: You whose clothes get hot when the land lies hushed under the south wind,
18 UST Are you able to explain how God made the sky so that it would stay firmly in place above the earth? BSB BSB: can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?
19 UST I doubt that you could tell us what to say to God. People do not know enough to be able to defend themselves if they spoke with God. BSB BSB: Teach us what we should say to Him; we cannot draw up our case because of our darkness.
20 UST I would not dare tell God that I needed to speak with him! If I did that, then he might destroy me! BSB BSB: Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up?
21 UST You know that people can not look directly at the sun when it shines brightly in the sky after the wind has blown the clouds 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 UST When God appears, he has glittering light all around him. His glory is so bright that it makes us afraid.{ So if we cannot even look at the sun, how could we look at God?} BSB BSB: Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
23 UST Shaddai has very great power, and we do not know how to get near to him. He always acts righteously, and he never mistreats anyone. BSB BSB: The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
24 UST That is why everyone should have great respect for him. Any people who think that they are wise do not impress him.” BSB BSB: Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”
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