Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?
New American Standard Bible
So that an
King James Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
Holman Bible
so that a flood of water covers you?
International Standard Version
"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you?
A Conservative Version
Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
American Standard Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
Bible in Basic English
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
Darby Translation
Dost thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that floods of waters may cover thee?
Julia Smith Translation
Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee?
King James 2000
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water may cover you?
Modern King James verseion
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that floods of waters may cover you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee?
NET Bible
Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
New Heart English Bible
"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?
The Emphasized Bible
Canst thou lift up, to the thick cloud, thy voice, and the overflow of waters cover thee?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
33
“Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or [can you] establish their rule over the earth?
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?
“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?
Names
Cross References
Job 22:11
Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And a flood of water covers you.
1 Samuel 12:18
So Samuel called to the Lord [in prayer], and He sent thunder and rain that day; and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.
Job 36:27-28
“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,
Amos 5:8
He who made the [cluster of stars called] Pleiades and [the constellation] Orion,
Who turns deep darkness into the morning
And darkens the day into night,
Who calls for the waters of the sea
And pours them out on the surface of the earth,
The Lord is His name.
Zechariah 10:1
It is the Lord who makes the thunder clouds;
And He will give them showers of rain, grass in the field to everyone.
James 5:18
Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its crops [as usual].