Job 26:8

World English Bible (2000)

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

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  • Prov 30:4 : 4 Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?
  • Jer 10:13 : 13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 I will lay it a wasteland. It won't be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it."
  • Gen 1:6-7 : 6 God said, "Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.
  • Job 36:29 : 29 Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?
  • Job 37:11-16 : 11 Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning. 12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world, 13 Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come. 14 "Listen to this, Job. Stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God. 15 Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine? 16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
  • Job 38:9 : 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
  • Job 38:37 : 37 Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
  • Ps 18:10-11 : 10 He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind. 11 He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
  • Ps 135:7 : 7 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

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    9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

    10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

    11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

    12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

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  • Job 37:11-12
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    11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

    12It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • Job 36:32
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    32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

    28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

    29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

    30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

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  • Job 28:11
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    11He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

  • Job 22:14
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    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

  • Job 38:34
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    34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • Jer 51:16
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    16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

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    12He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

    12At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, hailstones and coals of fire.

  • Ps 33:7
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    7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • Job 28:25-26
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    25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

    26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

  • Job 12:15
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    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

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    7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

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    37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

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    3He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

    4After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn't hold back anything when his voice is heard.

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    6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

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    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

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    9when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

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    3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

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    8He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

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    24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

    25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

    26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

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    6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

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    8Lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;

  • Prov 3:20
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    20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

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    8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

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    18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

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    23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

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    11or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.