Job 38:34
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
In Context
33Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
35Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
Cross References
Job 22:11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
Amos 5:8Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
James 5:18And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →