Job 38:9

American Standard Version (1901)

When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 And the earth was waste and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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    3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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    10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

  • Job 38:8
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    8Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

    12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.

    9He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

    10He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

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    27When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

    28When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

    29When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

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    2Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

    3Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters; Who maketh the clouds his chariot; Who walketh upon the wings of the wind;

  • Job 37:11
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    11Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

  • Job 36:32
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    32He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

  • Job 38:34
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    34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,

    38When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15Dost thou know how God layeth [his charge] upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

    17How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south [wind] ?

    18Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

    30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    7And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

    8All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Job 38:19
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    19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

    25Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder;

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    26When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

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    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

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    9He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

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    4Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

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    11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

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    14And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

  • Job 38:29-30
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    29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

    30The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.

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    2Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

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    14It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:

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    8That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;

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    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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    6Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

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    3When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

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    10He bowed the heavens also, and came down; And thick darkness was under his feet.

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    16when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.