34 Can you command[a] the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?(A)
35 Can you send out lightning(B) bolts, and they go?
Do they report to you, “Here we are”?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:34 Lit lift up your voice to

34 Can you raise your voice to the clouds
so that a flood of water covers you?[a]
35 Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go?
Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:34 tc The LXX has “answer you,” and some editors have adopted this. However, the reading of the MT makes better sense in the verse.

34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?(A)
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?(B)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

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