Job 38:34 KJV — MannaFest

Job 38:34

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

KJV

Parallel translations

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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Cross-references

10 verses on the floor

Matthew 8:9
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Job 22:11
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.
1 Samuel 12:18
So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
James 5:18
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

The sense is, who was it that built this goodly fabrick, and established it so firmly that it cannot be moved. Stars - The angels, who may well be called morning-stars, because of their excellent lustre and glory. Sons of God - The angels called the sons of God, because they had their whole being from him, and because they were made partakers of his Divine and glorious image.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

1 ); but if we lift up our voice to the clouds, to demand it, they will soon tell us they are not at our beck, and we shall go without it, Jer. xiv. The heavens will not her the earth unless God hear them, Hos. ii. See what poor, indigent, depending creatures we are; we cannot do without rain, nor can we have it when we will.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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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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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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