Job 37:18

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 44:24 : 24 The Lord Empowers Cyrus This is what the LORD, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb:“I am the LORD, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,
  • Ps 104:2 : 2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
  • Exod 38:8 : 8 He made the large basin of bronze and its pedestal of bronze from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
  • Job 9:8-9 : 8 he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea; 9 he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;
  • Gen 1:6-8 : 6 God said,“Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate water from water.” 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so. 8 God called the expanse“sky.” There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
  • Ps 148:4-6 : 4 Praise him, O highest heaven, and you waters above the sky! 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he gave the command and they came into existence. 6 He established them so they would endure; he issued a decree that will not be revoked.
  • Ps 150:1 : 1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!
  • Prov 8:27 : 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
  • Isa 40:12 : 12 The Lord is Incomparable Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?
  • 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.

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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

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

    17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

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

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

  • Job 38:22
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    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

    3and 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.

  • Job 38:4-5
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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

    38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

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

  • Job 38:29-31
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    29From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

    31Can you tie the bands of the Pleiades, or release the cords of Orion?

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

  • Job 22:11-14
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    11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

    12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

    13But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

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

  • Job 37:19
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    19Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

  • Job 38:9
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    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

  • Job 38:12-13
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    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 40:9
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    9Do you have an arm as powerful as God’s, and can you thunder with a voice like his?

  • Jer 10:12
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    12The 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.

  • Job 37:6
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    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • Ps 18:12
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    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Prov 8:28
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    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 9:8
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    8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;

  • Job 36:32
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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

  • Job 26:13
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    13By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

  • Job 37:22
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    22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • Ps 147:17
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    17He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

  • Job 41:32
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    32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

  • Gen 1:17
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    17God placed the lights in the expanse of the sky to shine on the earth,