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Job 37

Job 37:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Dost thou know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
when God
'elowahh (Hebrew #433)
a deity or the Deity
KJV usage: God, god. See 430.
Pronounce: el-o'-ah;
Origin: probably prolonged (emphat.) from 410
disposed
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
them, and caused the light
'owr (Hebrew #216)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
KJV usage: bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
Pronounce: ore
Origin: from 215
of his cloud
`anan (Hebrew #6051)
a cloud (as covering the sky), i.e. the nimbus or thunder-cloud
KJV usage: cloud(-y).
Pronounce: aw-nawn'
Origin: from 6049
to shine
yapha` (Hebrew #3313)
to shine
KJV usage: be light, shew self, (cause to) shine (forth).
Pronounce: yaw-fah'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Job 28:24‑27• 24He seeth under the whole heaven.{HR}In making to wind its weight,
 25And meting out the waters by measure,{HR}In making a law for the rain,
 26And a way for the lightning of the thunder,
 27Then he saw and declared it,{HR}He established and also searched it out; (Job 28:24‑27)
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Job 34:13• 13Who committed to him the earth?{HR}And who established the whole world? (Job 34:13)
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Job 38:4‑41• 4Where wast thou when I founded the earth?{HR}Declare if thou hast understanding.
 5Who fixed its measure that thou shouldest know,{HR}Or who stretched the line upon it?
 6Whereon are its sockets sunken,{HR}Or who laid down its corner-stone,
 7When the morning stars sang together,{HR}And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
 8And [who] shut up the sea with doors,{HR}When it burst forth — came out of the womb,
 9When I made the cloud its garment,{HR}And thick darkness its swaddling-band,
 10And broke for it my law, and set bars and doors,
 11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther,{HR}And here let one set against the pride of thy waves?
 12Hast thou, from thy days, commanded the mornings,{HR}Made the dawn to know its place,
 13To take hold of the wings of the earth,{HR}That the wicked might be shaken out of it,
 14That it may change like signet-clay,{HR}And things stand forth like a garment,
 15And from the wicked their light is withheld,{HR}And the uplifted arm is broken?
 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea,{HR}And walked about the secret of the deep?
 17Have the gates of death been disclosed to thee?{HR}And seest thou the gates of the shadow of death?
 18Hast thou strictly attended to the breadths of the earth?{HR}Declare if thou knowest the whole of it.
 19What [is] the way the light dwelleth,{HR}And darkness, where [is] its place,
 20That thou mightest bring it to its bound,{HR}And that thou mightest know the path [to] its house?
 21Thou knowest! for thou wast then born,{HR}And the number of thy days [is] great.
 22Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow,{HR}Or hast thou seen the storehouses of the hail,
 23Which I have reserved against the time of trouble,{HR}Against the day of battle and war?
 24Where is the way the light is distributed,{HR}The east wind is dispersed over the earth?
 25Who divideth watercourses for the torrents,{HR}Or a way for the lightning of thunder,
 26To cause it to rain on the land [where is] no man.{HR}The wilderness wherein [is] no man,
 27To satisfy the desolate and waste,{HR}And to make the place of the green herb to sprout?
 28Hath the rain a father?{HR}Or who begetteth the drops of dew?
 29Out of whose womb cometh the ice?{HR}And the frost of heaven, who bringeth it forth?
 30The waters hide themselves like stone,{HR}And the face of the deep cleaveth together.
 31Canst thou bind the bands of the Pleiades,{HR}Or unloose the traces of Orion?
 32Canst thou bring forth the Zodiac in his season,{HR}And as for Arcturus with its young, guide them?
 33Knowest thou the laws of heaven?{HR}Canst thou set its dominion over the earth?
 34Canst thou apply thy voice to the cloud,{HR}And abundance of water shall cover thee?
 35Canst thou send forth lightnings, and they shall go{HR}And say to thee, here we [are]!
 36Who put wisdom in the inward parts?{HR}Or who gave understanding to the perception?
 37Who regulateth the clouds by wisdom,{HR}Or who inclineth the pitchers of heaven,
 38When the dust is poured into hardness,{HR}And the clods are compacted together?
 39Dost thou hunt prey for the lioness,{HR}And fill the desire of the young lions,
 40When they couch in dens — abide in the covert in ambush?
 41Who provideth for the raven his meat,{HR}When his young cry to God [El] — wander without food? (Job 38:4‑41)
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Psa. 119:90‑91• 90To generation and generation [is] thy faithfulness.{HR}Thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.
 91By thine ordinances they stand today,{HR}For thy servants [are] the whole . (Psa. 119:90‑91)
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Isa. 40:26• 26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold. Who hath created these [things], bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and strength of power, not one faileth. (Isa. 40:26)
the light.
Job 37:11• 11And he loadeth with moisture the cloud,{HR}He scattereth the cloud of his light, (Job 37:11)
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Job 36:30‑32• 30Lo! He hath spread over it his light,{HR}And hath covered the depths of the sea.
 31For by them he judgeth the nations;{HR}He giveth, food in abundance.
 32On both hands he covereth lightning,{HR}And giveth it a charge in striking. (Job 36:30‑32)
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Job 38:24‑25• 24Where is the way the light is distributed,{HR}The east wind is dispersed over the earth?
 25Who divideth watercourses for the torrents,{HR}Or a way for the lightning of thunder, (Job 38:24‑25)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Dost thou know how +God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightningd of his cloud to flash?

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "light"; as ver.11, see ch. 36.32.

W. Kelly Translation

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Knowest thou how God charged them,{HR}And he maketh the lightning of his cloud to flash?