Job 38:37
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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—into cloud-forms—wisdom? Or who hath given—to the meteor—understanding?
38When the dust is cast into a clod, and the lumps are bound together?
Cross References
Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
Genesis 9:15then will I remember my covenant which is betwixt me and you, and every living soul among all flesh,—that the waters may no more become a flood, to destroy all flesh:
Psalms 147:4Counting the number of the stars, To all of them—names, he giveth.
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 →