Job 38:34
Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
In Context
33Have you known the statutes of the heavens? Or do you appoint || Its dominion in the earth?
35Do you send out lightnings, and they go || And say to you, Behold us?
Cross References
Job 22:11Or darkness—you do not see, || And abundance of waters covers you.
Amos 5:8The Maker of the Pleiades and Orion, || And He who is turning death-shade to the morning—And He has made day [as] dark [as] night—Who is calling to the waters of the sea, || And pours them on the face of the earth, || YHWH [is] His Name;
James 5:18and again he prayed, and the sky gave rain, and the land 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 →