Job 36:30
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?
See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
31 For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
32 He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.
- KJV
- Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- WEB
- Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
- ASV
- Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.
- DARBY
- Lo, he spreadeth his light around him, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
- BLB
- Behold, He scatters His lightning around Him, and covers the depths of the sea.
- ÅB
- Se, han breder ut sitt lys omkring seg og dekker det med havets røtter.[^5]
- OTB
- Se, Han sprer sitt lyn rundt seg
og dekker havets dyp. - B1930
- Se, han breder ut sitt lys omkring sig og dekker det med havets røtter. / < d.e. skyer som stiger op av havets dyp.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 38:25
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
Read in contextExodus 14:22
and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
Read in contextExodus 14:28
The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
Read in contextGenesis 1:9
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
Read in contextPsalms 18:11–16
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Read in contextPsalms 104:5–9
He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
Read in contextJob 38:34–35
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Read in contextExodus 15:4–5
Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.
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