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Under the whole heaven he lets it loose, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.

God thunders wondrously with his voice; he does great things that we cannot comprehend.

For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth'; and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,

He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.

They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Have you an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

Now therefore take seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept his prayer not to deal with you according to your folly; for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has done."

And the Lord restored the fortunes of Job when he had prayed for his friends; and the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Then there came to him all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house; they showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him; and each of them gave him a piece of money and a gold ring.

The Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand donkeys.

After this Job lived one hundred and forty years, and saw his children, and his children's children, four generations.

but their delight is in the law of the Lord , and on his law they meditate day and night.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and his anointed, saying,

Then he will speak to them in his wrath, and terrify them in his fury, saying,

kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way; for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from his son Absalom. O Lord , how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;

I cry aloud to the Lord , and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah