Job 36:30

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:9 : 9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
  • Exod 14:22 : 22 So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
  • Exod 14:28 : 28 The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea– not so much as one of them survived!
  • Exod 15:4-5 : 4 The chariots of Pharaoh and his army he has thrown into the sea, and his chosen officers were drowned in the Red Sea. 5 The depths have covered them, they went down to the bottom like a stone.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Job 38:25 : 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,
  • Job 38:34-35 : 34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? 35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?
  • Ps 18:11-16 : 11 He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds. 12 From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals. 13 The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted. 14 He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them. 15 The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose. 16 He reached down from above and took hold of me; he pulled me from the surging water.
  • Ps 104:5-9 : 5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved. 6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains. 7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off– 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
  • Luke 17:24 : 24 For just like the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.

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