Job 36:32
He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
BSB
ASV
He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
KJV
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
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Psalms 18:11He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
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Clouds and darkness surround Him; righteousness and justice are His throne’s foundation.
You came near and stood at the base of the mountain, a mountain blazing with fire to the heavens, with black clouds and deep darkness.
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Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
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He sends forth His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.
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Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
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When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
Ask 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.
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from…
lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
With clouds he covereth the light - This is all extraordinary saying, על כפים כמה אור al cappayim kissah or, which Mr. Good translates, “He brandisheth the blaze athwart the concave.” The Vulgate, with which all the other versions less or more agree, has, In manibus abscondit lucem, “In his hands he hideth the light;” or, more literally, “By the hollow of his hands (כפים cappayim) he concealeth the light, (אור or,”) the fountain of light, i.e., the Sun.
Thus, as in Job 36:31, the twofold effects of His waters are set forth, so here, of His light; in the one hand, destructive lightning against the wicked; in the other, the genial light for good to His friends, &c.