Job 38:35
Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
In Context
34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
36Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
Cross References
Exodus 9:29And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.
Numbers 11:1Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.
1 Samuel 22:12And Saul said, Give ear now, O son of Ahitub. And answering he said, Here I am, my lord.
2 Kings 1:14For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.
Job 37:3He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 65:1\64:2\As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;
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 →