Job 36:19-29

19 It will do you no good to cry out for help; all your strength can't help you now.
20 Don't wish for night to come, the time when nations will perish.
21 Be careful not to turn to evil; your suffering was sent to keep you from it.
22 Remember how great is God's power; he is the greatest teacher of all.
23 No one can tell God what to do or accuse him of doing evil.
24 He has always been praised for what he does; you also must praise him.
25 Everyone has seen what he has done; but we can only watch from a distance.
26 We cannot fully know his greatness or count the number of his years.
27 It is God who takes water from the earth and turns it into drops of rain.
28 He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.
29 No one knows how the clouds move or how the thunder roars through the sky, where God dwells.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. but we can only watch from a distance; [or] no one understands it all.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.