Job 36:32
30 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.
He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
33 The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
- KJV
- With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
- WEB
- He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
- ASV
- He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
- DARBY
- [His] hands he covereth with lightning, and commandeth it where it is to strike.
- BLB
- With [His] palms He covers the lightning, and He gives a charge upon it for [its] striking.
- ÅB
- Han dekker sine hender med lys og befaler det å fare ut mot fienden.
- OTB
- Han fyller sine hender med lyn
og befaler det å slå sitt mål. - B1930
- Han dekker sine hender med lys og byder det å fare ut mot fienden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 18:11
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Read in contextPsalms 147:8–9
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Read in contextJob 37:15
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
Read in contextPsalms 148:8
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
Read in contextPsalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Read in contextJob 26:9
He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
Read in contextJob 37:12
They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
Read in contextExodus 10:21–23
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
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