Job 38:34 “Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?”

Job 38:34

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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?

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

Bible in Basic English

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

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Cross references

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

1 Samuel 12:18 Amos 5:8 Zechariah 10:1 James 5:18

1 Samuel 12:18 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

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 · BSB

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

Also

Job 22:11 Job 36:27–28

Job 22:11 · BSB

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 36:27–28 · BSB

For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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