4 Bible Verses about Clouds, Figurative Use

Therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us??aving thrown off every encumbrance and the easily besetting sin??et us run with patience the race lying before us;

These are fountains without water, and mists driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

These are the hidden rocks in your love-feasts, feasting sumptuously together, feeding themselves without fear; clouds without water, borne along by winds; autumnal trees, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;