Job 38:34

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

Updated King James Version

In The King James Version

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

In Context

33Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set the dominion thereof in the earth?

35Can you send lightnings, that they may go and say unto you, Here we are?

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Cross References

Job 22:11Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

Amos 5:8Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

James 5:18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth 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 →

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