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Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty

Job 37:15

In 11 translations

BSB
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?
KJV
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
WEB
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
ASV
Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?
LSV
Do you know when God places them, || And caused the light of His cloud to shine?
YLT
Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?
DBY
Dost thou know how God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?Eloah
DRC
Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?
GNV
Diddest thou knowe when God disposed them? and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
JPS
Dost thou know how God enjoineth them, and causeth the lightning of His cloud to shine?
LXXE
We know that God has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.

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Original-language editions

WLC
הֲ֭תֵדַע בְּשׂוּם־אֱל֣וֹהַּ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וְ֝הוֹפִ֗יעַ א֣וֹר עֲנָנֽוֹ׃
LXX-Br
Οἴδαμεν ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἔθετο ἔργα αὐτοῦ, φῶς ποιήσας ἐκ σκότους.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
  • Isaiah 40:26Lift up your eyes on high: Who created all these? He leads forth the starry host by number; He calls each one by name. Because of His great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
  • Job 36:30–32See how He scatters His lightning around Him and covers the depths of the sea. For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance. He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
  • Job 38:4–41Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who fixed its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its foundations set,…
  • Psalms 119:90–91Your faithfulness continues through all generations; You established the earth, and it endures. Your ordinances stand to this day, for all things are servants to You.
  • Job 28:24–27For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters, when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt, then He…
  • Job 34:13Who gave Him charge over the earth? Who appointed Him over the whole world?

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