The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:25
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- KJV
- Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
- WEB
- Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm,
- ASV
- Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder;
- LSV
- Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
- YLT
- Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
- DBY
- Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;
- DRC
- Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:
- GNV
- Who hath deuided the spowtes for the raine? or the way for the lightning of ye thunders,
- JPS
- Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder;
- LXXE
- And who prepared a course for the violent rain, and a way for the thunders;
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- מִֽי־פִלַּ֣ג לַשֶּׁ֣טֶף תְּעָלָ֑ה וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃
- LXX-Br
- Τίς δὲ ἡτοίμασεν ὑετῷ λάβρῳ ῥύσιν, ὁδὸν δὲ κυδοιμῶν,
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
ConduitThunderWatercourseLightningRiverCondescension of GodReadings, SelectBaruch, Book ofMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaJob, Book of
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 28:26when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
- 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;…
- Job 37:3–6He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth. Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.…
- Job 36:27–28For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
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