Job 38:34

Translations

Modern

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Traditional

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Literal

Can you raise to the cloud your voice, and an abundance of waters will cover you?

Latin

Numquid elevabis in nebula vocem tuam, et impetus aquarum operiet te?

Original

Hebrew

English

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Job 22:11
…it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—
James 5:18
Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
1 Samuel 12:18
So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Job 36:27–28
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Glossary

Book of Job Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God Clouds: Man: Cannot Cause to Rain God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning

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