Job 38:37
Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
In Context
36Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the mind?
38When the dust runneth as into a molten mass, and the clods cleave fast together?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 9:15and I will remember my covenant which is between me and you and every living soul of all flesh; and the waters shall not henceforth become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Psalms 147:4He counteth the number of the stars; he giveth names to them all.
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 →