Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Job 38:37 in other translations
| BSB | Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens |
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| WEB | Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky, |
| ASV | Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, |
| YLT | Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down, |
| DARBY | Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens, |
| BBE | By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, |
| Webster | Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, |
What does Job 38:37 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 38:19-38
19-38. The marvels in heaven. "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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:25-41
Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he can do, therefore he ought not to oppose the ways of Providence. See the all-sufficiency of the Divine Providence; it has wherewithal to satisfy the desire of every living thing. And he that takes care of the young ravens…
Job 38:37 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 38:37
- Psalms 147:4
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.
- Genesis 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
- Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Job 38:36
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
- Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
- Job 38:38
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Job 38:37 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Quién puso por cuenta los cielos con sabiduría? y los odres de los cielos, ¿quién los hace parar, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qui a compté les nuages dans sa sagesse? et qui verse les outres des cieux, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer zählt die Wolken mit Weisheit, und des Himmels Schläuche, wer gießt sie aus, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quis enarrabit cælorum rationem? et concentum cæli quis dormire faciet? |