Job 38:34

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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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  • 33 Do 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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    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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Job 22:11-14
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    11 why 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!

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

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

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

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

  • Job 38:24-26
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    24 In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

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

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

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8 He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 16 When 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.

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

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

  • Job 37:5-6
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    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.’

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

  • 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.

  • Ps 77:17-18
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    17 The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    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.

  • 22 Do 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.”

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

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

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

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