Job 38:34
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
In Context
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?
35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Cross References
Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
James 5:18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
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 →