Parallel Verses
King James Version
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
New American Standard Bible
Or
Holman Bible
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
International Standard Version
Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,
A Conservative Version
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven
American Standard Version
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
Amplified
“Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom,
Or pour out the water jars of the heavens,
Bible in Basic English
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
Darby Translation
Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
Julia Smith Translation
Who shall number the clouds in wisdom? and who shall cause the bottles of heaven to lie down?
King James 2000
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the water skins of heaven,
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,
Modern King James verseion
Who can number the clouds by wisdom; or who can empty out the jars of the heavens,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who numbereth the clouds in wisdom? Who stilleth the vehement waters of heaven?
NET Bible
Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
New Heart English Bible
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
The Emphasized Bible
Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Webster
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
World English Bible
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
Youngs Literal Translation
Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
Topics
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:37
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart? 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, 38 When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
Genesis 9:15
And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Psalm 147:4
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.