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.