Daily Bible Reading

^36:24"Remember to extol his work,
of which mortals have sung.
²⁵All people have looked on it;
everyone watches it from far away.
²⁶Surely God is great, and we do not know him;
the number of his years is unsearchable.
²⁷For he draws up the drops of water;
he distills his mist in rain,
²⁸which the skies pour down
and drop upon mortals abundantly.
²⁹Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?
³⁰See, he scatters his lightning around him
and covers the roots of the sea.
³¹For by these he governs peoples;
he gives food in abundance.
³²He covers his hands with the lightning,
and commands it to strike the mark.
³³Its crashing tells about him;
he is jealous with anger against iniquity.

^37:14"Hear this, O Job;
stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
¹⁵Do you know how God lays his command upon them,
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
¹⁶Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,
¹⁷you whose garments are hot
when the earth is still because of the south wind?
¹⁸Can you, like him, spread out the skies,
hard as a molten mirror?
¹⁹Teach us what we shall say to him;
we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
²⁰Should he be told that I want to speak?
Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?
²¹Now, no one can look on the light
when it is bright in the skies,
when the wind has passed and cleared them.
²²Out of the north comes golden splendor;
around God is awesome majesty.
²³The Almighty — we cannot find him;
he is great in power and justice,
and abundant righteousness he will not violate.
²⁴Therefore mortals fear him;
he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit."