Job 38:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:26 : 26 when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
  • Job 36:27-28 : 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.
  • Job 37:3-6 : 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.’
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water. 4 The LORD’s shout is powerful, the LORD’s shout is majestic. 5 The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7 The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!” 10 The LORD sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the LORD sits enthroned as the eternal king.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:24
    87%

    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • Job 28:25-27
    3 verses
    83%

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

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

    27then he looked at wisdom and assessed its value; he established it and examined it closely.

  • Job 38:26-29
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    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

    27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

    29From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, who gives birth to it,

  • Job 38:33-38
    6 verses
    78%

    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?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

    36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

    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 37:11
    77%

    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

  • Jer 51:16
    77%

    16When 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
    4 verses
    77%

    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

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

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

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

  • Ps 135:7
    76%

    7He 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.

  • Job 37:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    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?

  • Jer 10:13
    76%

    13When 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 38:19
    76%

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

  • Ps 77:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

    18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

  • Job 36:27-29
    3 verses
    75%

    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

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

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

  • Job 28:11
    75%

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

  • Job 36:32
    75%

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

  • Ps 74:15
    74%

    15You broke open the spring and the stream; you dried up perpetually flowing rivers.

  • Job 38:8
    74%

    8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,

  • Job 5:10
    74%

    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Job 38:16
    74%

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

  • Job 38:22
    74%

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 12:15
    74%

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

  • Job 26:14
    74%

    14Indeed, 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 26:8
    74%

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

  • Job 38:2
    73%

    2“Who is this who darkens counsel with words without knowledge?

  • Job 38:10
    73%

    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • Job 38:5
    73%

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

  • Ps 104:3
    72%

    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 34:13
    72%

    13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

  • Job 41:32
    72%

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

  • Job 28:4
    72%

    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Job 38:12
    72%

    12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

  • 2 Sam 22:15
    72%

    15He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

  • Prov 8:28
    71%

    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,