20 Should He be told that I want to speak? Would a man ask to be swallowed up ? 21 Now no one can gaze at the sun when it is bright in the skies after the wind has swept them clean. 22 Out of the north He comes in golden splendor; awesome majesty surrounds Him.
Job 37:20–22
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Job 22:12–14
12 Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are! 13 Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness? 14 Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Job 25:4–6
4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure? 5 If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, 6 how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
Lamentations 3:43–45
43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity. 44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through. 45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
Sirach 43:30–32
30 Glorify the Lord and exalt him as much as you can! For even yet, he will surpass that. When you exalt him, summon your full strength. Don’t be weary, because you can’t praise him enough. (WEB) 31 Who has seen him, that he may describe him? Who can magnify him as he is? (WEB) 32 … (WEB)
Job 9:6–8
6 He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble. 7 He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars. 8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.
Job 26:8–10
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight. 9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud. 10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Odes of Solomon 26:9–11
9 Or who can train his soul for life, that his soul may be saved, (ODE) 10 Or who can rest on the Most High, so that with His mouth he may speak? (ODE) 11 Who is able to interpret the wonders of the Lord? (ODE)
Job 36:28–30
28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind. 29 Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion? 30 See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
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