English / ERV
Job 37
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1“The thunder and lightning frighten me; my heart pounds in my chest.
- 2Listen to God’s thundering voice! Listen to the sound coming from his mouth.
- 3He sends his lightning to flash across the whole sky. It lights up the earth from one end to the other.
- 4After the flashes of lightning you can hear his roaring voice. He thunders with his wonderful voice! And while his voice thunders, the lightning flashes continue.
- 5God’s thundering voice is amazing! He does great things that we cannot understand.
- 6He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth.’ And he says to the rain, ‘Pour down on the earth.’
- 7God does this to stop everyone’s work and to show the people he made what he can do.
- 8The animals run into their dens and stay there.
- 9Whirlwinds come from the south. The cold winds come from the north.
- 10God’s breath makes ice and freezes even large bodies of water.
- 11He fills the clouds with water and scatters his lightning through them.
- 12He orders the clouds to be blown all around the earth. The clouds do whatever he commands.
- 13He causes the clouds to punish people with floods or to water his earth and show his love.
- 14“Job, stop for a minute and listen. Think about the wonderful things God does.
- 15Do you know how God controls the clouds? Do you know how he makes his lightning flash?