Study Desk

Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?

Remember, that thou extol his work, of which men have sung;

Lo, GOD, is greater than we can know, The number of his years, even past finding out!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Canst thou got to know of GOD'S giving charge over them, or of the causing of the lightning of his cloud to shine forth?

Knowest thou, the statutes of the heavens? Or didst thou appoint his dominion over the earth?

Who prepareth for the Raven his nourishment, - when his young ones - unto GOD - cry out, when they wander for lack of food?

Whose house I have made the waste plain, and his dwellings, the land of salt: