Job 38:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

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    3By me the heavens are clothed with black, and I make haircloth their robe.

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    10Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

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    8Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

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    12And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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    11He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Job 26:8-10
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    8By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

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    27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

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    2You are clothed with light as with a robe; stretching out the heavens like a curtain:

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  • Job 37:11
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    11The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

  • Job 36:32
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    32He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 38:34
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    34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

    38When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

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    13And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?

    14Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

    17You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

    18Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

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    19Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

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    24Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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    4Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge.

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    14And whenever I make a cloud come over the earth, the bow will be seen in the cloud,

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    29Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

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    2Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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    14It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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    10The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

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    16At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.