19 Will your riches save you from having to suffer?

Will all your mighty strength help you?

20 Don't look forward to the night, when people disappear from their places.

21 Be careful! Don't turn to evil, because you have chosen evil instead of suffering.a 22 "El does great things by his power.

Is there any teacher like him?

23 Who can tell him which way he should go?

Who can say to him, 'You did wrong'?

24 Remember that you should praise his work.

People have sung about it.

25 Every person has seen it.

Mortals have looked at it from a distance.

26 "Certainly, El is so great that he is beyond our understanding.

The number of his years cannot be counted.

"He collects drops of water.

He distills rain from his mist, 28 which then drips from the clouds.

It pours down on many people.

29 Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place?

30 Look, he scatters his flashes of lightning around him and covers the depths of the sea.

31 This is how he uses the rains to provide for people and to give them more than enough food.

32 He fills his hands with lightning and orders it to hit the target.

33 The thunder announces his coming.

The storm announces his angry wrath.

Elihu Continues: God's Ways Are Beyond Human Understanding 371 "My heart pounds because of this and jumps out of its place.

2 Listen! Listen to the roar of God's voice, to the rumbling that comes from his mouth.

3 He flashes his lightning everywhere under heaven.

His light flashes to the ends of the earth.

4 It is followed by the roar of his voice.

He thunders with his majestic voice.

He doesn't hold the lightning back when his thunder is heard.

5 El's voice thunders in miraculous ways.

It does great things that we cannot understand.

6 "He says to the snow, 'Fall to the ground,'

and to the pouring rain, 'Rain harder!'

7 He makes it impossible to do anythinga so that people will recognize his work.

8 Animals go into their dens and stay in their lairs.

9 A storm comes out of its chamber.

It is cold because of the strong winds.b 10 El's breath produces ice, and the seas freeze over.

11 Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.

12 He guides the clouds as they churn round and round over the face of the inhabited earth to do everything he orders them.

13 Whether for discipline, or for the good of his earth, or out of mercy, he makes the storm appear.

14 "Open your ears to this, Job.

Stop and consider El's miracles.

15 Do you know how Eloah controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?

16 Do you know how the clouds drift (these are the miracles of the one who knows everything), 17 you whose clothes are hot and sweaty, when the earth is calm under a south wind?

18 Can you stretch out the skies with him and make them as firm as a mirror made of metal?

19 Teach us what we should say to him.

We are unable to prepare a case because of darkness.

20 Should he be told that I want to speak?

Can a person speak when he is confused?

21 People can't look at the sun when it's bright among the clouds or after the wind has blown and cleared those clouds away.

22 A golden light comes from the north.

A terrifying majesty is around Eloah .

23 Shadday , whom we can't reach, is great in power and judgment, has more than enough righteousness, and does not oppress.

24 That is why people should fear him.

He does not respect those who think they're wise."

The LORD Speaks: Who Is Able to Challenge Me?

381 Then Yahweh answered Job out of the storm.

2 "Who is this that belittles my advice with words that do not show any knowledge about it?

3 Brace yourself like a man!

I will ask you, and you will teach me.

The LORD Speaks about Creation 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?

Tell me if you have such insight.

5 Who determined its dimensions?

Certainly, you know!

Who stretched a measuring line over it?

6 On what were its footings sunk?

Who laid its cornerstone 7 when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of Elohim shouted for joy?

8 "Who shut the sea behind gates when it burst through and came out of the womb, 9 when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds, 10 when I set a limit for it and put up bars and gates, 11 when I said, 'You may come this far but no farther.

Here your proud waves will stop'?

12 "Have you ever given orders to the morning or assigned a place for the dawn 13 so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it?

14 The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and parts of it stand out like folds in clothing.

15 Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised in victory is broken.

16 Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?

17 Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?

18 Have you even considered how wide the earth is?

Tell me, if you know all of this!

19 "What is the way to the place where light lives?

Where is the home of darkness 20 so that you may lead it to its territory, so that you may know the path to its home?

21 You must know because you were born then and have lived such a long time!

22 Have you been to the warehouses where snow is stored or seen the warehouses for hail 23 that I have stored up for the time of trouble, for the day of battle and war?

24 Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth?

25 "Who made a channel for the flooding rains and a path for the thunderstorms 26 to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on a desert where there are no humans, 27 to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?

28 Does the rain have a father?

Who gave birth to the dewdrops?

29 From whose womb came the ice, and who has given birth to the frost in the air?

30 The water hardens like a stone, and the surface of the ocean freezes over.

31 "Can you connect the chains of the constellation Pleiades or untie the ropes of Orion?

32 Can you bring out the constellations at the right time or guide Ursa Major with its cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the sky or make them rule the earth?

34 Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you?

35 Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?

36 Who put wisdom in the heart or gave understanding to the mind?a 37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds or pour out the water jars of heaven 38 when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together?

The Lioness 39 "Can you hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of her cubs 40 as they crouch in their dens and lie ready to ambush from their lairs?

The Crow 41 "Who provides food for the crow when its young ones cry to El and wander around in need of food?

The LORD Continues: The Mountain Goats 391 "Do you know the time when the mountain goats give birth?

Do you watch the does when they are in labor?

2 Can you count the months they are pregnant or know the time when they'll give birth?

3 They kneel down to give birth and deliver their young.

Then the pain of giving birth is over.

4 Their young are healthy and grow up in the wild.