Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars,
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
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,
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 has put wisdom in the ibis, or who has given understanding to the rooster? 37 Who can number [the] clouds with wisdom? Or who can tilt heaven's jars, 38 at [the] flowing of [the] dust into a cast and [the] clods cling together?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 8:1
And God remembered Noah and all the wild animals, and all the domesticated animals that [were] with him in the ark. And God caused a wind to blow over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Genesis 9:15
Then I will remember my covenant that [is] between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction} of all flesh.
Genesis 15:5
And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Psalm 147:4
[He] counts [the] number of the stars; he gives names to all of them.