Job 37:13-23

13 Que ce soit pour châtier, ou pour rendre sa terre fertile, ou pour exercer sa bonté, il leur fait atteindre le but.
14 Prête l'oreille à cela, Job: arrête-toi, et considère les merveilles de Dieu.
15 Sais-tu comment Dieu les prépare, comment il fait briller la lumière de sa nue?
16 Sais-tu comment se balancent les nuages, cette merveille de celui dont la science est parfaite?
17 Comment tes vêtements sont chauds quand il endort la terre par le vent du Midi?
18 As-tu étendu avec lui les cieux, fermes comme un miroir de métal?
19 Apprends-nous donc ce que nous devons dire de lui: car nous ne saurions préparer des discours du sein de nos ténèbres.
20 Voudrais-je qu'on lui rapportât ce que je dis? Jamais homme voulut-il être englouti?
21 Et maintenant on ne peut regarder le soleil brillant dans les cieux, quand un vent a passé et les a purifiés,
22 Quand une lueur d'or vient du septentrion. Il y a en Dieu une majesté redoutable.
23 Le Tout-Puissant! nous ne pouvons l'atteindre; il est sublime en puissance, en droit, en justice; il n'opprime personne.

Job 37:13-23 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 37

Elihu in this chapter proceeds to show the greatness of God as it appears in other of his works of nature, which greatly affected him, and to an attention to which he exhorts others, Job 37:1,2; particularly thunder and lightning, the direction, extent, and order of which he observes, Job 37:3,4; and then suggests that besides these there are other great things done by him, incomprehensible and unknown in various respects; as the snow, and rain, lesser and greater, which come on the earth at his command, and have such effect on men as to seal up their hands, and on the beasts of the field as to cause them to retire to their dens, and there remain, Job 37:5-8; and then he goes on to take notice of wind, and frost, and the clouds, and dispersion of them; their use and ends, whether in judgment or mercy, Job 37:9-13; and then calls on Job to consider these wondrous works of God, and remark how ignorant men are of the disposition of clouds for the rainbow; of the balancing of them; of the heat and quietness that come by the south wind, and of the firmness of the sky, Job 37:14-21; and from all this he concludes the terrible majesty, unsearchable nature of God, the excellency of his power and justice; and that men therefore should and do fear him, who is no respecter of persons, Job 37:21-23.

The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.