Job 37:14-24

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?
17 Sais-tu pourquoi tes vêtements sont chauds Quand la terre se repose par le vent du midi?
18 Peux-tu comme lui étendre les cieux, Aussi solides qu'un miroir de fonte?
19 Fais-nous connaître ce que nous devons lui dire; Nous sommes trop ignorants pour nous adresser à lui.
20 Lui annoncera-t-on que je parlerai? Mais quel est l'homme qui désire sa perte?
21 On ne peut fixer le soleil qui resplendit dans les cieux, Lorsqu'un vent passe et en ramène la pureté;
22 Le septentrion le rend éclatant comme l'or. Oh! que la majesté de Dieu est redoutable!
23 Nous ne saurions parvenir jusqu'au Tout-Puissant, Grand par la force, Par la justice, par le droit souverain: Il ne répond pas!
24 C'est pourquoi les hommes doivent le craindre; Il ne porte les regards sur aucun sage.

Job 37:14-24 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.

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