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Job 37:11

Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

KJV

Frumentum desiderat nubes, et nubes spargunt lumen suum.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐκλεκτὸν καταπλάσσει νεφέλη. διασκορπιεῖ νέφος φῶς αὐτοῦ.

LXX

Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

ASV

אַף בְּ֭/רִי יַטְרִ֣יחַ עָ֑ב יָ֝פִ֗יץ עֲנַ֣ן אוֹרֽ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
אַף
'p
adverb · 133×
יַטְרִ֣יחַ
ytrych
verb · 1×
ם
m
verb · 68×
עָ֑ב
'b
noun · 32×
עָנָ֖ן
'nn
noun · 87×
רִי
ry
noun · 1×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 11:14 — That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
  • Gen 1:6 — And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
  • Gen 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
  • Gen 8:2 — The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
  • Isa 18:4 — For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
  • Isa 44:22 — I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
  • Job 26:8 — He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
  • Job 36:27 — For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
  • Job 36:32 — With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.
  • Job 37:15 — Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
  • Matt 17:5 — While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.