Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches 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?
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?
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 laws of the heavens? Can you regulate their authority over the earth? 34 "Can you call out to the clouds, so that abundant water drenches you? 35 Can you command the lightning, so that it goes forth and calls to you, "Look at us!'
Names
Cross References
Job 22:11
you see nothing but darkness, and a flood of troubles drowns you."
1 Samuel 12:18
Samuel called upon the LORD that same day, and the LORD sent thunder and rain. So all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
Job 36:27-28
He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.
Amos 5:8
Seek the one who fashions the Pleiades and Orion, who turns the deep darkness into morning, who darkens day into night, who calls out to the waters of the sea, pouring them out onto the surface of the earth the LORD is his name.
Zechariah 10:1
"Ask the LORD for rain in the spring the LORD who fashions lightning thunderstorms, giving rain showers to mankind along with grain in the fields.
James 5:18
Then he prayed again, and the skies poured out rain, and the ground produced its crops.