Job 38:34

In 11 translations

BSB

Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

KJV

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

WEB

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

ASV

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

LSV

Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, || And abundance of water covers you?

YLT

Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

DBY

Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?

DRC

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

GNV

Canst thou lift vp thy voice to the cloudes that the aboundance of water may couer thee?

JPS

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

LXXE

And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲתָרִ֣ים לָעָ֣ב קוֹלֶ֑ךָ וְֽשִׁפְעַת־מַ֥יִם תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃

LXX-Br

καλέσεις δὲ νέφος φωνῇ, καὶ τρόμῳ ὕδατος λάβρου ὑπακούσεταί σου;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
• Zechariah 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
• 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—
• 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.
• James 5:18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
• 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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