Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

One draws it, and treads it from behind, even lightning from his gall; terror is on him.

He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;

Also He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters the lightning cloud,

Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.

He was still speaking when another messenger came and reported: “A lightning storm struck from heaven. It burned up the sheep and the servants and devoured them, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

Then there comes a roaring sound;
God thunders with His majestic voice.
He does not restrain the lightning
when His rumbling voice is heard.

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?

“Why does your heart carry you away?
And why do your eyes flash,

“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

If I looked at the sun, when it flashed forth light, or at the moon, majestically marching along;