Job 37:16
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?
BSB
ASV
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?
KJV
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds - How are the clouds suspended in the atmosphere? Art thou so well acquainted with the nature of evaporation, and the gravity of the air at different heights, to support different weights of aqueous vapor, so as to keep them floating for a certain portion of time, and then let them down to water the earth; dost thou know these things so as to determine the laws by which they are regulated? Wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge - This is a paraphrase.
Hebrew, "Hast thou understanding of the balancings," &c., how the clouds are poised in the air, so that their watery gravity does not bring them to the earth?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Isaiah 40:22He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
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I was there when He established the heavens, when He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,
He wraps Himself in light as with a garment; He stretches out the heavens like a tent,
This is what God the LORD says—He who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and its offspring, who gives breath to the people on it and life to…
This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
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Job 36:4For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
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For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.