036:013 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger.
They don't cry for help when he binds them.
036:014 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.
036:015 He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens
their ear in oppression.
036:016 Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place,
where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table
would be full of fatness.
036:017 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked.
Judgment and justice take hold of you.
036:018 Don't let riches entice you to wrath, neither let the great
size of a bribe turn you aside.
036:019 Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might
of your strength?
036:020 Don't desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.
036:021 Take heed, don't regard iniquity; for you have chosen this
rather than affliction.
036:022 Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
036:023 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say,
'You have committed unrighteousness?'
036:024 "Remember that you magnify his work, whereof men have sung.
036:025 All men have looked thereon. Man sees it afar off.
036:026 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number
of his years is unsearchable.
036:027 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain
from his vapor,
036:028 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
036:029 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds,
and the thunderings of his pavilion?
036:030 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom
of the sea.
036:031 For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
036:032 He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it
to strike the mark.
036:033 Its noise tells about him, and the livestock also concerning
the storm that comes up.
037:001 "Yes, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
037:002 Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes
out of his mouth.
037:003 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning
to the ends of the earth.
037:004 After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty.
He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.
037:005 God thunders marvelously with his voice. He does great things,
which we can't comprehend.
037:006 For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to
the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
037:007 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has
made may know it.
037:008 Then the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
037:009 Out of its chamber comes the storm, and cold out of the north.
037:010 By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the
waters is frozen.
037:011 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture.
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