Job 38:9

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when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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  • Isa 50:3
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    3I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

  • Job 38:10
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    10when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

  • Job 38:8
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    8Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb,

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He made darkness his covering around him, dense clouds of water and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

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

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not torn apart beneath them.

    9He covers the face of his throne and spreads his cloud over it.

    10He inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27When He established the heavens, I was there; when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep.

    28When He strengthened the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong.

    29When He set the boundary for the sea so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth.

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2You cover Yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent curtain.

    3He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters; He makes the clouds His chariot and walks on the wings of the wind.

  • Job 37:11
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    11Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.

  • Job 36:32
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    32He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.

  • Job 38:34
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    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37Who can count the clouds with wisdom or tilt the water jars of the heavens,

    38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13But you say, 'What does God know? Can He judge through such thick darkness?'

    14Clouds cover Him so He cannot see as He walks on the circle of the heavens.

  • Job 37:15-18
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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?

    17You who feel your garments warm when the earth is quiet under the south wind.

    18Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29Moreover, can anyone understand the expanse of the clouds, or the thunderings of His pavilion?

    30Behold, He spreads His light over it and covers the depths of the sea.

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    7When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.

    8All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Job 38:19
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    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

    25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

  • Job 28:26
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    26when He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

  • Job 22:11
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    11It is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of waters covers you.

  • Ps 18:9
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    9Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; burning coals blazed forth from Him.

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

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11If I say, 'Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,'

    12even the darkness will not be dark to You; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.

  • Gen 9:14
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    14Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow becomes visible in the clouds,

  • Job 38:29-30
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    29From whose womb does the ice come forth? Who gives birth to the frost of the heavens,

    30when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

  • Job 38:2
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    2Who is this that darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

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    14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.

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    8He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • Job 19:8
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    8He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3when His lamp shone upon my head, and I walked by His light through the darkness.

    4I was as in the prime of my life, when the intimate friendship of God was over my tent.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
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    10He parted the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet.

  • 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.