Job 38:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 22:11 : 11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
  • 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.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 (But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name!
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.
  • Jas 5:18 : 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.
  • 1 Sam 12:18 : 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD made it thunder and rain that day. All the people were very afraid of both the LORD and Samuel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:33
    82%

    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

  • Job 36:27-30
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    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?

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

  • Job 38:35
    82%

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

  • Job 38:37-38
    2 verses
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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 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 40:9
    79%

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

  • Job 37:15-16
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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?

  • Job 38:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

    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,

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

  • Job 26:8-9
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    77%

    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.

  • Job 35:5
    77%

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

  • Job 36:32-33
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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

    33His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

  • Job 37:11
    76%

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

  • Jer 51:16
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    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 38:16
    76%

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

  • Job 11:8
    76%

    8It is higher than the heavens– what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol– what can you know?

  • Job 37:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    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.’

  • Job 37:18
    76%

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

  • 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.

  • Ps 77:17-18
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    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.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.

  • Job 38:22
    75%

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

  • Job 38:18
    74%

    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

  • Job 38:28
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    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

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

  • Job 38:11
    73%

    11when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

  • Job 38:4
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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!

  • Job 38:30-31
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    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?

  • Lam 3:44
    73%

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

  • 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.

  • Jer 14:22
    73%

    22Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”

  • Hab 3:10
    73%

    10When the mountains see you, they shake. The torrential downpour sweeps through. The great deep shouts out; it lifts its hands high.

  • Job 30:22
    73%

    22You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

  • Job 38:2
    72%

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

  • Ps 29:3
    72%

    3The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water.