Job 38:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

In My making a cloud its clothing, And thick darkness its swaddling band,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:2 : 2 the earth hath existed waste and void, and darkness `is' on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God fluttering on the face of the waters,

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  • Isa 50:3
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    3I clothe the heavens `with' blackness, And sackcloth I make their covering.

  • Job 38:10
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    10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

  • Job 38:8
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    8And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.

  • Ps 18:11-12
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    11He maketh darkness His secret place, Round about Him His tabernacle, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

    12From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

    9Taking hold of the face of the throne, Spreading over it His cloud.

    10A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    27In His preparing the heavens I `am' there, In His decreeing a circle on the face of the deep,

    28In His strengthening clouds above, In His making strong fountains of the deep,

    29In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

  • Ps 104:2-3
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    2Covering himself `with' light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

    3Who is laying the beam of His upper chambers in the waters, Who is making thick clouds His chariot, Who is walking on wings of wind,

  • Job 37:11
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    11Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.

  • Job 36:32
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    32By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

  • Job 38:34
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    34Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

  • Job 38:37-38
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    37Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

    38In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

  • Job 22:13-14
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    13And thou hast said, `What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

    14Thick clouds `are' a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

    16Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

    17How thy garments `are' warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

    18Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

  • Job 36:29-30
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    29Yea, doth `any' understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

    30Lo, He hath spread over it His light, And the roots of the sea He hath covered,

  • Ezek 32:7-8
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    7And in quenching thee I have covered the heavens, And have made black their stars, The sun with a cloud I do cover, And the moon causeth not its light to shine.

    8All luminaries of light in the heavens, I make black over thee, And I have given darkness over thy land, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah,

  • Job 38:19
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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

  • Job 38:24-25
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    24Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

    25Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

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    26In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,

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    11Or darkness -- thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.

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    9And He inclineth the heavens, and cometh down, And thick darkness `is' under His feet.

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    4Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding.

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    11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night `is' light to me.

    12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.

  • Gen 9:14
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    14and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

  • Job 38:29-30
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    29From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoar-frost of the heavens, Who hath begotten it?

    30As a stone waters are hidden, And the face of the deep is captured.

  • Job 38:2
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    2Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

  • Job 38:14
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    14It turneth itself as clay of a seal And they station themselves as clothed.

  • Job 9:8
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    8Stretching out the heavens by Himself, And treading on the heights of the sea,

  • Job 19:8
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    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

    4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

  • 2 Sam 22:10
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    10And He inclineth heaven, and cometh down, And thick darkness `is' under His feet.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters `are' in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures.