Job 37:6-16

6 Il dit à la neige: Tombe sur la terre! Il le dit à la pluie, même aux plus fortes pluies.

7 Il met un sceau sur la main de tous les hommes, Afin que tous se reconnaissent comme ses créatures.

8 L'animal sauvage se retire dans une caverne, Et se couche dans sa tanière.

9 L'ouragan vient du midi, Et le froid, des vents du nord.

10 Par son souffle Dieu produit la glace, Il réduit l'espace où se répandaient les eaux.

11 Il charge de vapeurs les nuages, Il les disperse étincelants;

12 Leurs évolutions varient selon ses desseins, Pour l'accomplissement de tout ce qu'il leur ordonne, Sur la face de la terre habitée;

13 C'est comme une verge dont il frappe sa terre, Ou comme un signe de son amour, qu'il les fait apparaître.

14 Job, sois attentif à ces choses! Considère encore les merveilles de Dieu!

15 Sais-tu comment Dieu les dirige, Et fait briller son nuage étincelant?

16 Comprends-tu le balancement des nuées, Les merveilles de celui dont la science est parfaite?

Job 37:6-16 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.