Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
Perhaps these difficult verses should be rendered, "he covereth the concave with lightning, and chargeth it what it shall strike
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Bible References
Perhaps these difficult verses should be rendered, "he covereth the concave with lightning, and chargeth it what it shall strike
Job 26:9
[He] covers [the] face of [the] full moon; [he] spreads his cloud over it.
Exodus 10:21
And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."
Psalm 18:11
He made darkness his hiding place; all about him his covering [was] a darkness of waters, {thick clouds}.
Psalm 135:7
[He] causes clouds to rise from the edge of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain; [he] brings out [the] wind from his storehouses.
Psalm 147:8
who covers [the] heavens with clouds, who provides rain for the earth, who causes grass to grow on the mountains.
Psalm 148:8
fire and hail, snow and cloud, stormy wind doing his bidding,
Acts 27:20
But [when] neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and [with] not a little bad weather confronting [us], finally all hope was abandoned [that] we would be saved.
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Job 37:21
So then, they do not look at the light [when it is] bright in the skies, when [the] wind has passed and has cleansed them.