Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

New American Standard Bible

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Can you command the clouds
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?

Amplified


“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Canst thou lift up
רוּם 
Ruwm 
Usage: 189

קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

to the clouds
עב 
`ab 
Usage: 32

שׁפעה 
Shiph`ah 
Usage: 6

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth? 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? 35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

Cross References

Job 22:11

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

1 Samuel 12:18

So Samuel made prayer to the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people were in fear of the Lord and of Samuel.

Job 36:27-28

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

Amos 5:8

Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;

Zechariah 10:1

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

James 5:18

And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.

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