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Job 36:30

Job 36:30 is verse 30 of Job chapter 36, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

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King James Version

Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.

World English Bible

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

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Job 36:28–32 · Berean Standard Bible

28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

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

30 See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea.

31 For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.

32 He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 38:25

Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,

Job 38:34

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

Job 38:35

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

Luke 17:24

For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.

Job 38:8

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Job 38:9

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

Job 38:10

when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,

Job 38:11

and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.

Exodus 14:22

and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:28

The waters flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had chased the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.

Exodus 15:4

Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:5

The depths have covered them; they sank there like a stone.

Psalms 18:11

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

Psalms 18:12

From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:13

The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalms 18:14

He shot His arrows and scattered the foes; He hurled lightning and routed them.

Psalms 18:15

The channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were exposed, at Your rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Psalms 18:16

He reached down from on high and took hold of me; He drew me out of deep waters.

Psalms 104:5

He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.

Psalms 104:6

You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.

Psalms 104:7

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Psalms 104:8

the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—

Psalms 104:9

You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

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