Job 37:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:4 : 4 For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.
  • Job 36:29 : 29 Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
  • Ps 104:2-3 : 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.
  • Ps 104:24 : 24 How many living things you have made, O LORD! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.
  • Ps 147:5 : 5 Our Lord is great and has awesome power; there is no limit to his wisdom.
  • Prov 3:19-20 : 19 By wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding. 20 By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, so that the clouds drip down dew.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.
  • Jer 10:12-13 : 12 The LORD is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies. 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.
  • Job 26:8 : 8 He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

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