Job 38:34
Good News Translation
Can you shout orders to the clouds and make them drench you with rain?

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

1 Samuel 12:18 And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day.

Amos 5:8 Seek him that maketh Arcturus, and Orion, and that turneth darkness into morning, and that changeth day into night: that calleth 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 latter season, and the Lord will make snows, and will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

James 5:18 And he prayed again. And the heaven gave rain: and the earth brought forth her fruit.

Context
God Challenges Job
33Dost thou know the order of heaven, and canst thou set down the reason thereof on the earth? 34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee?35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?…
Cross References
Job 22:11
And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?

Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

Job 36:28
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

Job 38:37
Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?

Job 38:33
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