Do you know how God directs His clouds
or makes their lightning flash?

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!”

when He established a limit for the rain
and a path for the lightning,

See how He spreads His lightning around Him
and covers the depths of the sea.

He covers His hands with lightning
and commands it to hit its mark.

He lets it loose beneath the entire sky;
His lightning to the ends of the earth.

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

He saturates clouds with moisture;
He scatters His lightning through them.

Who cuts a channel for the flooding rain
or clears the way for lightning,

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

Why has your heart misled you,
and why do your eyes flash

He pulls it out of his back,
the flashing tip out of his liver.
Terrors come over him.

A quiver rattles at his side,
along with a flashing spear and a lance.

His snorting flashes with light,
while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.