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

"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

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

Also, he loads down thick clouds with moisture; his lightning scatters the clouds.

And they turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on the face of the habitable world.

Whether as correction or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.

Do you know how God commands them and how he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?

Or do you have an arm like God, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

"It is the first of God's actions; the one who made him furnishes it with his sword.

So then, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will pray for you, for I will certainly accept his prayer, so that it will not be done with you according to your folly, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job has."

Then Yahweh returned Job's fortune when he prayed to him on behalf of his friends. Thus Yahweh increased all that Job had twice as much as before.

So all his brothers and all his sisters and all those who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house and showed sympathy to him and comforted him for all the disaster that Yahweh had brought upon him. Then each one gave to him one piece of money, and each one gave to him one ornamental ring of gold.

So Yahweh blessed Job's latter days more than his beginning. Thus he had fourteen thousand sheep and goats and six thousand camels and a thousand pair of oxen and a thousand female donkeys.

And Job lived after this one hundred and forty years, and he saw his sons and his grandsons for four generations.

Instead, in the law of Yahweh is his delight, and on his law he meditates day and night.

The kings of the earth establish themselves, and the rulers conspire together against Yahweh and his anointed:

Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them:

Kiss the Son lest he be angry and you perish on the way, for his anger burns quickly. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

A psalm of David at his fleeing from the presence of Absalom, his son. Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many are rising against me.

With my voice I call to Yahweh and he answers me from his holy hill. Selah