Job 38:37
Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
In Context
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the covered part?
38In the hardening of dust into hardness, || And clods cleave together?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
Genesis 9:15and I have remembered My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living creature among all flesh, and the waters no longer become a flood to destroy all flesh;
Psalms 147:4Appointing the number of the stars, || He gives names to all of them.
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 →