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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  • 3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

  • 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

    28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

    29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

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

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

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

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

    38 when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13 You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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

  • Job 37:15-18
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    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?

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

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

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

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

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    7 When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

    8 All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

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

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

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

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

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

  • 9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

  • 4 "Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

  • Ps 139:11-12
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    11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"

    12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

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

  • Job 38:29-30
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    29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

    30 The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

  • 2 "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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

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

  • 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

    4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,

  • 10 He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.

  • 16 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 lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.