Job 38:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?”
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BSBPD
“Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 38:34 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Samuel 12:18So 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.
- Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
- Amos 5:8He 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 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime;the LORD makes the storm clouds,and He will give everyone showers of rainand crops in the field.
- James 5:18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
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