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# Job 37

Job 37 is chapter 37 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 24 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Eliu goes on in his discourse, shewing God's wisdom and power, by his wonderful works.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 37 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. At this, my heart became frightened, and it has been moved from its place.
2. Pay close attention to the alarm of his voice and to the sound that proceeds from his mouth.
3. He beholds everything under the heavens, and his light reaches beyond the ends of the earth.
4. After this, a noise will sound; he will thunder with the voice of his greatness, and it will not be tracked down, yet his voice will be obeyed.
5. God will thunder with his voice miraculously, for he performs great and unsearchable things.
6. He commands the snow to descend on earth, and the winter rains, and the shower of his strength.
7. He signs the hand of all men, so that each one may know his works.
8. The beast will enter his hiding-place, and he will remain in his cave.
9. From the interior, a storm will come forth, and a cold winter from the north.
10. As God breathes out, frost forms, and the waters are poured forth very widely again.
11. Crops desire clouds, and the clouds scatter their light.
12. It shines all around, wherever the will of him that governs them will lead, to anywhere he will command, over the whole face of the earth,
13. whether in one tribe, or in his own region, or in whatever place of his mercy that he will order them to be found.
14. Listen to these things, Job. Stand up and consider the wonders of God.
15. Do you know when God ordered the rains, so as to show the light of his clouds?
16. Do you know the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect sciences?
17. Are not your garments hot, when the south wind blows across the land?
18. Perhaps you have made the heavens with him, which are very solid, as if they had been cast from brass.
19. Reveal to us what we should say to him, for, of course, we are wrapped in darkness.
20. Who will explain to him the things that I am saying? Even while a man is still speaking, he will be devoured.
21. Although they do not see the light, the air will be thickened suddenly into clouds, and the wind, passing by, will drive them away.
22. Riches arrive from the north, and fearful praise reaches out to God.
23. We are not worthy to be able to find him. Great in strength, great in judgment, great in justice: he is indescribable.
24. Therefore, men will fear him, and all those who seem to themselves to be wise, will not dare to contemplate him.

## Job 37 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Super hoc expavit cor meum, et emotum est de loco suo.
2. Audite auditionem in terrore vocis ejus, et sonum de ore illius procedentem.
3. Subter omnes cælos ipse considerat, et lumen illius super terminos terræ.
4. Post eum rugiet sonitus; tonabit voce magnitudinis suæ: et non investigabitur, cum audita fuerit vox ejus.
5. Tonabit Deus in voce sua mirabiliter, qui facit magna et inscrutabilia;
6. qui præcipit nivi ut descendat in terram, et hiemis pluviis, et imbri fortitudinis suæ;
7. qui in manu omnium hominum signat, ut noverint singuli opera sua.
8. Ingredietur bestia latibulum, et in antro suo morabitur.
9. Ab interioribus egredietur tempestas, et ab Arcturo frigus.
10. Flante Deo, concrescit gelu, et rursum latissimæ funduntur aquæ.
11. Frumentum desiderat nubes, et nubes spargunt lumen suum.
12. Quæ lustrant per circuitum, quocumque eas voluntas gubernantis duxerit, ad omne quod præceperit illis super faciem orbis terrarum:
13. sive in una tribu, sive in terra sua, sive in quocumque loco misericordiæ suæ eas jusserit inveniri.
14. Ausculta hæc, Job: sta, et considera mirabilia Dei.
15. Numquid scis quando præceperit Deus pluviis, ut ostenderent lucem nubium ejus?
16. Numquid nosti semitas nubium magnas, et perfectas scientias?
17. Nonne vestimenta tua calida sunt, cum perflata fuerit terra austro?
18. Tu forsitan cum eo fabricatus es cælos, qui solidissimi quasi ære fusi sunt.
19. Ostende nobis quid dicamus illi: nos quippe involvimur tenebris.
20. Quis narrabit ei quæ loquor? etiam si locutus fuerit homo, devorabitur.
21. At nunc non vident lucem: subito aër cogetur in nubes, et ventus transiens fugabit eas.
22. Ab aquilone aurum venit, et ad Deum formidolosa laudatio.
23. Digne eum invenire non possumus: magnus fortitudine, et judicio, et justitia: et enarrari non potest.
24. Ideo timebunt eum viri, et non audebunt contemplari omnes qui sibi videntur esse sapientes.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 7: When he sends those showers of his strength, that is, those storms of rain, he seals up, that is, he shuts up the hands of men from their usual works abroad, and confines them within doors, to consider his works; or to forecast their works, that is, what they themselves are to do.
- Verse 20: All that man can say when he speaks of God, is so little and inconsiderable in comparison with the subject, that man is lost, and as it were swallowed up in so immense an ocean.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).