Job 26:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 97:2 : 2 Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.
  • Hab 3:3-5 : 3 God comes from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His splendor has covered the skies, the earth is full of his glory. 4 His brightness will be as lightning; a two-pronged lightning bolt flashing from his hand. This is the outward display of his power. 5 Plague will go before him; pestilence will march right behind him.
  • 1 Tim 6:16 : 16 He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.
  • Exod 20:21 : 21 The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
  • Exod 33:20-23 : 20 But he added,“You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.” 21 The LORD said,“Here is a place by me; you will station yourself on a rock. 22 When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and will cover you with my hand while I pass by. 23 Then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen.”
  • Exod 34:3 : 3 No one is to come up with you; do not let anyone be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks or the herds may graze in front of that mountain.”
  • 1 Kgs 8:12 : 12 Then Solomon said,“The LORD has said that he lives in thick darkness.
  • Job 22:14 : 14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

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    7 He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.

    8 He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

  • 32 With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • 12 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13 But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

    14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    12 From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Job 26:10-14
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    10 He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

    11 The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

    12 By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

    13 By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

    14 Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • Job 37:11-12
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    11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28 which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

    29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

    30 See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • 2 Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

  • 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

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    2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

    3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

  • 34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

  • 9 He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;

    8 he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

  • 10 He made the sky sink as he descended; a thick cloud was under his feet.

  • 11 He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

  • 13 When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • 16 When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Job 37:3-6
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    3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

    4 After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

    5 God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

    6 For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • 11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

  • 7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • 6 He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.

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    25 When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,

    26 when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

  • 15 If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • 18 will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • 44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.

  • Job 37:21-22
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    21 But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

    22 From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15 Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

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

  • 6 Even though his stature reaches to the heavens and his head touches the clouds,

  • 8 He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.