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”?

36 Who put wisdom(C) in the heart[b]
or gave the mind understanding?

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Footnotes

  1. 38:34 Lit lift up your voice to
  2. 38:36 Or the inner self; Ps 51:6

34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

35 Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go and say unto thee, Here we are?

36 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

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