Job 26:8

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Job 26:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

7 He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

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Job 36:29

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Genesis 1:6

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1:7

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Psalms 135:7

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son— surely you know!

Jeremiah 10:13

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Job 37:11

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:12

They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.

Job 37:13

Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.

Job 37:14

Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

Job 37:15

Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

Job 37:16

Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Psalms 18:10

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalms 18:11

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”