Job 36:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. 22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; 23 They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.
  • Job 26:9 : 9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
  • Job 37:12 : 12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
  • Job 37:15 : 15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?
  • Ps 18:11 : 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains. 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
  • Acts 27:20 : 20 And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.

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    27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

    28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

    29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

    30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

    31 For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.

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    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

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    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

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