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For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;

With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.

But surely none can understand the burstings of the cloud, the crashing of his pavilion!

Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

For, by those things, he executeth judgment on peoples, He giveth food in abundance:

Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:

His rolling thunder telleth concerning him, - The cattle, even, concerning him that is coming up.

Yea, at this, my heart quaketh, and starteth up out of its place.

Hear! oh hear! the raging of his voice, A growling sound also, out of his mouth, goeth forth;

Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;

After it, roareth a voice, He thundereth with his voice of majesty, Nor will he hold them back, when his voice is heard.

GOD thundereth with his voice, wonderfully, Doing great things, which we cannot know;

For, to the snow, he saith, Fall earthwards, - Also to the downpour of rain, yea the downpour of his mighty rains.

On the hand of every man, he setteth a seal, that all men may take note of his doing.

So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.

Out of a chamber cometh a storm-wind, and, out of the north, cold.

By the breath of GOD, is given - frost, and, the breadth of waters, is congealed;

Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;

Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth.

Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.