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;

Being drawn it will come forth from the body; and the lightning will go from his bile, and terrors upon him.

His hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.

Dost thou know how +God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?

Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,

Behold, he spreads his lightning upon it, and covers the depths of the sea.

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”?

My insides feel like unvented wine, like it's about to burst like a new wineskin.

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

Who is a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?

He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.

My companions are treacherous like a torrent-bed; like a streambed of wadis they flow away,

Like a slave he longs for [the] shadow, and like a laborer he waits for his wages.

They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on [its] prey.

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

He builds his house like a moth, and like a booth that the keeper makes.

They are exalted a little while, then {they are gone}. And they are brought low; they are cut off like all [others], and like [the] heads of grain they wither away.

"Let my enemy be like [the] wicked and my opponent like [the] unrighteous,

Did you not pour me out like milk and {curdle me} like cheese?

to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

{I also have insight} like you; I am not more inferior than you. And {who does not know things like these}?

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.

It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

I chose their way, and I sat [as] head, and I dwelled like a king among the troops, like [one] who comforts mourners.

Are Your days like those of a human,
or Your years like those of a man,

He makes the deep boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.