Job 37

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.	1 At this my heart trembles and leaps out of its place,
2 Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth.	2 To hear his angry voice as it rumbles forth from his mouth!
3 He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.	3 Everywhere under the heavens he sends it, with his lightning, to the ends of the earth.
4 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.	4 Again his voice roars-- the majestic sound of his thunder.
5 God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things.	5 He does great things beyond our knowing; wonders past our searching out.
6 He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.	6 For he says to the snow, "Fall to the earth"; likewise to his heavy, drenching rain.
7 He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.	7 He shuts up all mankind indoors;
8 Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.	8 the wild beasts take to cover and remain quietly in their dens.
9 Out of the inner parts shall a tempest come, and cold out of the north.	9 Out of its chamber comes forth the tempest; from the north winds, the cold.
10 When God bloweth there cometh frost, and again the waters are poured out abundantly.	10 With his breath God brings the frost, and the broad waters become congealed.
11 Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light :	11 With hail, also, the clouds are laden, as they scatter their flashes of light.
12 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 :	12 He it is who changes their rounds, according to his plans, in their task upon the surface of the earth,
13 Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.	13 whether for punishment or mercy, as he commands.
14 Hearken to these things, Job : Stand, and consider the wondrous works of God.	14 Hearken to this, O Job! Stand and consider the wondrous works of God!
15 Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?	15 Do you know how God lays his commands upon them, and makes the light shine forth from his clouds?
16 Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?	16 Do you know how the clouds are banked, the wondrous work of him who is perfect in knowledge?
17 Are not thy garments hot, when the south wind blows upon the earth?	17 You, whom the streams of water fail when a calm from the south comes over the land,
18 Thou perhaps hast made the heavens with him, which are most strong, as if they were of molten brass.	18 Do you spread out with him the firmament of the skies, hard as a brazen mirror?
19 Shew us what we may say to him : for we are wrapped up in darkness.	19 Teach us then what we shall say to him; we cannot, for the darkness, make our plea.
20 Who shall tell him the things I speak? even if a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up.	20 Will he be told about it when I speak, or when a man says he is being destroyed?
21 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.	21 Nay, rather, it is as the light which men see not while it is obscured among the clouds, till the wind comes by and sweeps the clouds away.
22 Cold cometh out of the north, and to God praise with fear.	22 From the North the splendor comes, surrounding God's awesome majesty!
23 We cannot find him worthily : he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.	23 The Almighty! we cannot discover him, pre-eminent in power and judgment; his great justice owes no one an accounting.
24 Therefore men shall fear him, and all that seem to themselves to be wise, shall not dare to behold him.	24 Therefore men revere him, though none can see him, however wise their hearts.