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34 Can you shout to the clouds and make it rain? 35 Can you make lightning appear and cause it to strike as you direct it?

36 “Who gives intuition and instinct?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 Who gives intuition and instinct? or “Who has put wisdom in the inward parts and given understanding to the mind?”

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’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](C)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
  2. Job 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.