Job 38:35
Can you send forth lightning bolts, and will they go, and on returning, say to you: “Here we are?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
In Context
34Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an onslaught of waters will cover you?
36Who placed discernment in the guts of man, or who gave the rooster intelligence?
Cross References
Exodus 9:29Moses said: “When I have departed from the city, I will extend my hands to the Lord, and the thunders will cease, and the hail will not be, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.
Numbers 11:1Meanwhile, there arose a murmur among the people against the Lord, as if they were grief-stricken because of their labors. And when the Lord had heard it, he was angry. And when the fire of the Lord was enflamed against them, it devoured those who were at the extreme end of the camp.
1 Samuel 22:12And Saul said to Ahimelech, “Listen, son of Ahitub.” He responded, “Here I am, lord.”
2 Kings 1:14Behold, fire from heaven descended and devoured the two previous leaders of fifty and the fifties who were with them. But now I beg you to take pity on my life.”
Job 37:3He beholds everything under the heavens, and his light reaches beyond the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 65:1Those who before were not asking for me have sought me. Those who have not sought me have found me. I said, “Behold, it is I! Behold, it is I!” to a nation which was not invoking my name.
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 →