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Job 38:34

Job 38:34 is verse 34 of Job chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

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Job 38:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible

32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear and her cubs?

33 Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth?

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

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

36 Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

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Cross-references

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

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.

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—

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.

James 5:18

Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

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