The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:37
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- KJV
- Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,stay: Heb. cause to lie down
- WEB
- Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,
- ASV
- Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
- LSV
- Who numbers the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, || Who causes to lie down,
- YLT
- Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
- DBY
- Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
- DRC
- Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
- GNV
- Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
- JPS
- Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
- LXXE
- And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven down to the earth?
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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־יְסַפֵּ֣ר שְׁחָקִ֣ים בְּחָכְמָ֑ה וְנִבְלֵ֥י שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם מִ֣י יַשְׁכִּֽיב׃
- LXX-Br
- Τίς δὲ ὁ ἀριθμῶν νέφη σοφίᾳ, οὐρανὸν δὲ εἰς γῆν ἔκλινε;
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
BottleBottlesCondescension of GodReadings, SelectCloudBaruch, Book ofMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaJob, Book ofCloudsWisdom
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 147:4He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.
- Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Genesis 9:15I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.
- Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
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