Job 38:35
New International Version
Do you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

New Living Translation
Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct?

English Standard Version
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Berean Standard Bible
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

King James Bible
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

New King James Version
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go, And say to you, ‘Here we are!’?

New American Standard Bible
“Can you send flashes of lightning, so that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

NASB 1995
“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

NASB 1977
“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Legacy Standard Bible
Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Amplified Bible
“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Christian Standard Bible
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you, “Here we are”?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Do they report to you: “Here we are"?

American Standard Version
Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Are you sending lightnings and they go and say to you: ‘Here we are!’?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And wilt thou send lightnings, and they shall go? and shall they say to thee, What is thy pleasure?

Contemporary English Version
or will lightning flash at your command?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee : Here we are?

English Revised Version
Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Can you send lightning flashes so that they may go and say to you, 'Here we are'?

Good News Translation
And if you command the lightning to flash, will it come to you and say, "At your service"?

International Standard Version
Can you command the lightning, so that it goes forth and calls to you, 'Look at us!'

JPS Tanakh 1917
Canst thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee: 'Here we are'?

Literal Standard Version
Do you send out lightnings, and they go | And say to you, Behold us?

Majority Standard Bible
Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

New American Bible
Can you send forth the lightnings on their way, so that they say to you, “Here we are”?

NET Bible
Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, 'Here we are'?

New Revised Standard Version
Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

New Heart English Bible
Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, 'Here we are?'

Webster's Bible Translation
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?

World English Bible
Can you send out lightnings, that they may go? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, 'Behold us?'

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Context
God Challenges Job
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’? 36Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?…

Cross References
Job 36:32
He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

Job 37:3
He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

Can you send lightning, that they may go and say to you, Here we are?

Canst

Exodus 9:23-25,29
And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt…

Leviticus 10:2
And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.

Numbers 11:1
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.

Here we are.

1 Samuel 22:12
And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord.

Isaiah 6:8
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Isaiah 65:1
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

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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 35. - Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Hers we are? If Job cannot command the clouds, much less can he send (or rather, send forth) lightnings - these marvellous and terrible evidences of almighty power. Even now, with all our command of electricity, our savants would, from the best electrical ms-chine, find it difficult to produce the effects which often result from a single flash of lightning.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Can you send
הַֽתְשַׁלַּ֣ח (haṯ·šal·laḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

the lightning bolts
בְּרָקִ֣ים (bə·rā·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1300: Lightning, a gleam, a flashing sword

on their way?
וְיֵלֵ֑כוּ (wə·yê·lê·ḵū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

Do they report
וְיֹאמְר֖וּ (wə·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 559: To utter, say

to you,
לְךָ֣ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

‘Here we are’?
הִנֵּֽנוּ׃ (hin·nê·nū)
Interjection | first person common plural
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!


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