Job 38:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

When I made the cloud its garment, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

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  • Gen 1:2 : 2 And the earth was formless and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the surface of the waters.

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

  • 10 And fixed My limit for it, and set bars and doors,

  • 8 Or who closed up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

  • 12 And he made darkness canopies around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11 He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion around him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

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

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8 He binds up the waters in His thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

    9 He holds back the face of His throne and spreads His cloud upon it.

    10 He has encircled the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a boundary upon the face of the depth;

    28 When he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep,

    29 When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not go beyond his command; when he appointed the foundations of the earth,

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain:

    3 Who lays the beams of His chambers in the waters: who makes the clouds His chariot: who walks upon the wings of the wind:

  • 11 Also by watering he burdens the thick cloud, he scatters his bright cloud.

  • 32 With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.

  • 34 Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that an abundance of water may cover you?

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

    38 When the dust hardens into clumps, and the clods cling together?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13 And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud?

    14 Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.'

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15 Do you know when God arranged them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

    16 Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

    17 How your garments are warm when he quiets the earth by the south wind?

    18 Have you with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and like a molten mirror?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29 Also can anyone understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tent?

    30 Behold, he spreads his light upon it, and covers the bottom of the sea.

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

    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness upon your land, says the Lord GOD.

  • 19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24 By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

    25 Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder,

  • 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a path for the lightning of the thunder,

  • 11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down: and darkness was under his feet.

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

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

    12 Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.

  • 14 And it shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;

  • Job 38:29-30
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    29 From whose womb comes the ice? And the frost of heaven, who gives it birth?

    30 The waters are hidden like stone, and the surface of the deep is frozen.

  • 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 14 It is changed like clay under the seal; and they stand out like a garment.

  • 8 He alone spreads out the heavens, and treads upon the waves of the sea.

  • 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.

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

    4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tent;

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

  • 16 When He utters His voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightnings with rain, and brings forth the wind out of His treasures.