Job 38:35

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Can you send forth lightning bolts and have them go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are'?

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  • Exod 9:23-25 : 23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 Hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. 25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.
  • Exod 9:29 : 29 Moses replied, 'When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.'
  • Lev 10:2 : 2 Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
  • Num 11:1 : 1 Now the people began to complain bitterly in the hearing of the LORD, and when the LORD heard this, His anger burned, and fire from the LORD consumed the outskirts of the camp.
  • Num 16:35 : 35 Then fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering incense.
  • 1 Sam 22:12 : 12 Saul said, 'Listen now, son of Ahitub!' And he replied, 'Here I am, my lord.'
  • 2 Kgs 1:10 : 10 Elijah answered the captain, 'If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!' Then fire came down from heaven and consumed the captain and his fifty.
  • 2 Kgs 1:14 : 14 He continued, 'Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains and their men. But now, please let my life be valuable in your eyes.'
  • Job 36:32 : 32 He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.
  • Job 37:3 : 3 He unleashes it under the whole sky, and His lightning to the edges of the earth.
  • Isa 6:8 : 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for Us?" And I said, "Here I am. Send me!"
  • Isa 65:1 : 1 I offered myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not call on my name.
  • Rev 11:5-6 : 5 If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and devours their enemies. If anyone tries to harm them, this is how they must be killed. 6 They have authority to shut the sky so no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with any plague whenever they wish.

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  • Job 38:24-26
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    24What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

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  • Job 37:2-6
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    2Listen closely to the rumbling of His voice and the sound that comes from His mouth.

    3He unleashes it under the whole sky, and His lightning to the edges of the earth.

    4After it, His voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, and He does not hold them back when His voice is heard.

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  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God orders them and how He causes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

    16Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

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  • Job 38:36-37
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    36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

    37Who can count the clouds with wisdom or tilt the water jars of the heavens,

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    17The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and trembled; even the depths were shaken.

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    26when He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

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    9Do you have an arm like God's, and can your voice thunder like His?

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    32He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.

    33Its thundering declares His presence; the storm speaks of His power.

  • Job 36:29
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    29Moreover, can anyone understand the expanse of the clouds, or the thunderings of His pavilion?

  • Job 37:18-19
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    18Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

    19Teach us what we should say to Him, for we cannot present our case because of the darkness.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth wind from His storehouses.

  • Jer 10:13
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    13At the sound of His thunder, water roars in the heavens. He causes clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of His storehouses.

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    12Have you ever commanded the morning or shown the dawn its place,

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    7He brings up clouds from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from His storehouses.

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    4Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.

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    14The LORD thundered from the heavens; the Most High gave his voice.

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    11Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.

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    13But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

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    12He made darkness His covering, His canopy around Him—the dark rain clouds of the skies.

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    14The LORD thundered from the heavens; the Most High uttered His voice, with hailstones and burning coals.

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    16Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

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    5Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.