371 "Whenever this happens, my heart stops - I'm stunned, I can't catch my breath. 2 Listen to it! Listen to his thunder, the rolling, rumbling thunder of his voice. 3 He lets loose his lightnings from horizon to horizon, lighting up the earth from pole to pole. 4 In their wake, the thunder echoes his voice, powerful and majestic. He lets out all the stops, he holds nothing back. No one can mistake that voice - 5 His word thundering so wondrously, his mighty acts staggering our understanding.
6 He orders the snow, 'Blanket the earth!' and the rain, 'Soak the whole countryside!' 7 No one can escape the weather - it's there. And no one can escape from God. 8 Wild animals take shelter, crawling into their dens, 9 When blizzards roar out of the north and freezing rain crusts the land. 10 It's God's breath that forms the ice, it's God's breath that turns lakes and rivers solid. 11 And yes, it's God who fills clouds with rainwater and hurls lightning from them every which way. 12 He puts them through their paces - first this way, then that - commands them to do what he says all over the world. 13 Whether for discipline or grace or extravagant love, he makes sure they make their mark. A Terrible Beauty Streams from God
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 37:1-13
Commentary on Job 37:1-13
(Read Job 37:1-13)
The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a storm; and shall man only be unprovided with a refuge? Oh that men would listen to the voice of God, who in many ways warns them to flee from the wrath to come; and invites them to accept his salvation, and to be happy. The ill opinion which men entertain of the Divine direction, peculiarly appears in their murmurs about the weather, though the whole result of the year proves the folly of their complaints. Believers should avoid this; no days are bad as God makes them, though we make many bad by our sins.