Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?
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?
American Standard Version
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
Amplified
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?
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 thou know the ordinances of the heavens? Can thou establish the dominion of it on the earth? 34 Can thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee? 35 Can thou send forth lightnings, that they may go, and say to thee, Here we are?
Names
Cross References
Job 22:11
or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
1 Samuel 12:18
So Samuel called to LORD, and LORD sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared LORD and Samuel.
Job 36:27-28
For he draws up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapor,
Amos 5:8
[seek him] who makes the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night, who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face of the earth (LORD is his name),
Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.
James 5:18
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.