Job 38:37
Who ordaineth the skies with wisdom? or who emptieth out the bottles of heaven.
Leeser Tanakh
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 dark clouds? or who hath given understanding to the bright meteors?
38When the dust is poured out as molten metal, and the clods are made to 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 this same day, were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 9:15I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Psalms 147:4Who counteth the number of the stars; who calleth them all by [their] names.
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 →