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¹⁴ ‘Hear this, O Job;
   stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
¹⁵ Do you know how God lays his command upon them,
   and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
¹⁶ Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
   the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,
¹⁷ you whose garments are hot
   when the earth is still because of the south wind?
¹⁸ Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
   unyielding as a cast mirror?
¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say to him;
   we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
   Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?
²¹ Now, no one can look on the light
   when it is bright in the skies,
   when the wind has passed and cleared them.
²² Out of the north comes golden splendour;
   around God is awesome majesty.
²³ The Almighty^*—we cannot find him;
   he is great in power and justice,
   and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
²⁴ Therefore mortals fear him;
   he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.’