Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, `Behold us?'
Dost thou send forth lightnings that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXXVIII. In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have…