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With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm's approach.

Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

Do you have an arm as powerful as God's, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.

Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes! After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has. So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has." So they went, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and did just as the Lord had told them; and the Lord had respect for Job. So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job. So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. So the Lord blessed the second part of Job's life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys. And he also had seven sons and three daughters. The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-Happuch. Nowhere in all the land could women be found who were as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance alongside their brothers. After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. And so Job died, old and full of days.

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.

So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord 's commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.

The kings of the earth form a united front; the rulers collaborate against the Lord and his anointed king.

Then he angrily speaks to them and terrifies them in his rage, saying,