Job 38:35
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
In Context
34“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
Cross References
Exodus 9:29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.
Numbers 11:1The people were complaining in the ears of the LORD. When the LORD heard it, his anger burned; and the LORD’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.
1 Samuel 22:12Saul said, “Hear now, you son of Ahitub.” He answered, “Here I am, my lord.”
2 Kings 1:14Behold, fire came down from the sky and consumed the last two captains of fifty with their fifties. But now let my life be precious in your sight.”
Job 37:3He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Isaiah 65:1“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
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 →