Job 38:34
New International Version
“Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

New Living Translation
“Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain?

English Standard Version
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?

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

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

New King James Version
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That an abundance of water may cover you?

New American Standard Bible
“Can you raise your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?

NASB 1995
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?

NASB 1977
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water may cover you?

Legacy Standard Bible
“Can you raise your voice up to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?

Amplified Bible
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, So that an abundance of water will cover you?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do you lift up your voice over the clouds, and do you cover them with a multitude of waters?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And wilt thou call a cloud with thy voice, and will it obey thee with a violent shower of much rain?

Contemporary English Version
Can you order the clouds to send a downpour,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Can you call to the clouds and have a flood of water cover you?

Good News Translation
Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

International Standard Version
"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

Literal Standard Version
Do you lift up your voice to the cloud, | And abundance of water covers you?

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

New American Bible
Can you raise your voice to the clouds, for them to cover you with a deluge of waters?

NET Bible
Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

New Revised Standard Version
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that a flood of waters may cover you?

New Heart English Bible
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou lift thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

World English Bible
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

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Context
God Challenges Job
33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set their dominion over the earth? 34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you? 35Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?…

Cross References
Job 22:11
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 36:27
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Job 36:28
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Job 38:37
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens


Treasury of Scripture

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

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.

Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

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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Job 38
1. God challenges Job to answer
4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31. and weakness














Verse 34. - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of water may sever thee? Will the clouds take their orders from thee, listen to thee, obey thy voice? None but the "medicine-men" of savage tribes profess to have any such power. Elijah, indeed, "prayed, and the heaven gave rain" (James 5:18); but this was a very different thing from "commanding the clouds of heaven." His prayer was addressed to God, and God gave the rain for which he made his petition.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Can you command
הֲתָרִ֣ים (hă·ṯā·rîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

the clouds
לָעָ֣ב (lā·‘āḇ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

so that a flood
וְֽשִׁפְעַת־ (wə·šip̄·‘aṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 8229: Abundance, quantity

of water
מַ֥יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

covers you?
תְּכַסֶּֽךָּ׃ (tə·ḵas·se·kā)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover


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