Job 36:29

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

WEB

Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds and the thunderings of his pavilion?

ASV

Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

LSV

Indeed, do [any] understand || The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His dwelling place?

YLT

Yea, doth [any] understand The spreadings out of a cloud? The noises of His tabernacle?

DBY

But can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, [or] the crashing of his pavilion?

DRC

If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

GNV

Who can know the diuisions of ye clouds and the thunders of his tabernacle?

JPS

Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, the crashings of His pavilion?

LXXE

And though one should understand the outspreadings of the clouds, or the measure of his tabernacle;

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WLC

אַ֣ף אִם־יָ֭בִין מִפְרְשֵׂי־עָ֑ב תְּ֝שֻׁא֗וֹת סֻכָּתֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἐὰν συνῇ ἐπεκτάσεις νεφέλης, ἰσότητα σκηνῆς αὐτοῦ,

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• Job 37:16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
• Job 37:2–5Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth. He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. Then there comes a roaring sound; He…
• Psalms 29:3–10The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic. The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;…
• 1 Kings 18:44–45On the seventh time the servant reported, “There is a cloud as small as a man’s hand rising from the sea.” And Elijah replied, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”…
• Psalms 104:3laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
• Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
• Nahum 1:3The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
• Psalms 18:13The LORD thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded— hailstones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
• Job 38:9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
• Job 26:14Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
• Habakkuk 3:10The mountains saw You and quaked; torrents of water swept by. The deep roared with its voice and lifted its hands on high.
• Psalms 77:16–19The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken. The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth. Your thunder resounded in the…

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