Job 36:32

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 36:32 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 10:21Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
  2. Job 26:9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
  3. Job 37:12They swirl about, whirling at His direction, accomplishing all that He commands over the face of all the earth.
  4. Job 37:15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
  5. Job 38:35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
  6. Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
  7. Psalms 18:15The 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.
  8. Psalms 135:7He 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.
  9. Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
  10. Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
  11. Acts 27:20When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the great storm continued to batter us, we abandoned all hope of being saved.

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