Job 38:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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    8"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

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

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    11He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

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  • Job 26:8-10
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    8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

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

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    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

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    2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

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    11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

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

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

  • Job 38:37-38
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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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    13You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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  • Job 37:15-18
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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?

    17You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

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

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    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

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

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

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    14It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

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    29Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

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    14It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

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