Job 38:35

Translations

Modern

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Traditional

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

Literal

Can you send out lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Behold us’?

Latin

Numquid mittes fulgura, et ibunt, et revertentia dicent tibi: Adsumus?

Original

Hebrew

English

Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

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

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Glossary

Book of Job Lightning Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Lightning: General Scriptures Concerning Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning

Job 38:35

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