For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

Can you lead out the constellations in their seasons, or guide the Bear with its cubs?

Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?

Is it at your command that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.

The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.

Now the day came when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord – and Satan also arrived among them.

and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

“Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.