Job 26:8
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8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
and the cloud is not torn open by them.(A)
Proverbs 30:4
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4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is the person’s name?
And what is the name of the person’s child?
Surely you know!(A)
Jeremiah 10:13
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13 When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)
Isaiah 5:6
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6 I will make it a wasteland;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.(A)
Psalm 135:7
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7 He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth;
he makes lightnings for the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses.(A)
Psalm 18:10-11
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10 He rode on a cherub and flew;
he came swiftly upon the wings of the wind.(A)
11 He made darkness his covering around him,
his canopy thick clouds dark with water.(B)
Job 38:37
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37 Who has the wisdom to number the clouds?
Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens
Job 38:9
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9 when I made the clouds its garment
and thick darkness its swaddling band,(A)
Job 37:11-16
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11 He loads the thick cloud with moisture;
the clouds scatter his lightning.(A)
12 They turn round and round by his guidance
to accomplish all that he commands them
on the face of the habitable world.(B)
13 Whether for correction or for his land
or for love, he causes it to happen.(C)
14 “Hear this, O Job;
stop and consider the wondrous works of God.(D)
15 Do you know how God lays his command upon them
and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
16 Do you know the balancings of the clouds,
the wondrous works of the one whose knowledge is perfect,(E)
Job 36:29
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29 Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,
the thunderings of his pavilion?(A)
Genesis 1:6-7
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6 And God said, “Let there be a dome in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”(A) 7 So God made the dome and separated the waters that were under the dome from the waters that were above the dome. And it was so.(B)
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