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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

²⁴ ‘Remember to extol his work,
   of which mortals have sung.
²⁵ All people have looked on it;
   everyone watches it from far away.
²⁶ Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
   the number of his years is unsearchable.
²⁷ For he draws up the drops of water;
   he distils^* his mist in rain,
²⁸ which the skies pour down
   and drop upon mortals abundantly.
²⁹ Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
   the thunderings of his pavilion?
³⁰ See, he scatters his lightning around him
   and covers the roots of the sea.
³¹ For by these he governs peoples;
   he gives food in abundance.
³² He covers his hands with the lightning,
   and commands it to strike the mark.
³³ Its crashing^* tells about him;
   he is jealous^* with anger against iniquity.

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.’