Job 38:34
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an onslaught of waters will cover you?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
In Context
33Do you know the order of heaven, and can you explain its rules here on the earth?
35Can you send forth lightning bolts, and will they go, and on returning, say to you: “Here we are?”
Cross References
Job 22:11And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the onrush of overflowing waters?
Amos 5:8The Maker of Arcturus and Orion, who turns darkness into daybreak and who changes day into night; who calls forth the waters of the sea and who pours them out over the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.
James 5:18And he prayed again. And the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth 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 →