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Job 38:34

CreationGod's power and sovereignty

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

35 Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

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BSB
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
KJV
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
WEB
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
ASV
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
DARBY
Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?
BLB
Can you raise to the cloud your voice, and an abundance of waters will cover you?
ÅB
Kan din røst nå opp til skyen, så en flom av vann dekker deg?
OTB
«Kan du rope til skyene
og dekke deg med en flom av vann?
B1930
Kan din røst nå op til skyen, så en flom av vann dekker dig?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 22:11

    it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

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  • Zechariah 10:1

    Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.

    Read in context

  • James 5:18

    Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

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  • Job 36:27–28

    For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

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  • 1 Samuel 12:18

    So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.

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  • Amos 5:8

    He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

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