Job 38:37
Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?
38When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundreth year of the life of Noe in the second month, in the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the flood gates of heaven were open:
Genesis 9:15And I will remember my covenant with you, and with every living soul that beareth flesh: and there shall no more be waters of a flood to destroy all flesh.
Psalms 147:4His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth: in that day all their thoughts shall perish.
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 →