Job 38:37New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Who can count the clouds by wisdom, Or tip the water jars of the heavens,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Who numbereth the clouds with wisdom? or who poureth out the bottles of the heavens,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Who can count the thin clouds, in wisdom? And, the bottles of the heavens, who can empty out;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Who can nomber cloudes by wisedome? Or who can cause to cease the bottels of heaue,
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Who can number the cloudes in wisedome? Or who can stay the bottles of heauen,
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Who has numbered the clouds by his wisdom? And who has raised the pillars of heaven?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And who is he that numbers the clouds in wisdom, and has bowed the heaven [down] to the earth?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven, |
Who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
can number
5608 {5608} Primeסָפַרcaphar{saw-far'}
A primitive root; properly to score with a mark as a tally or record, that is, (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively to recount, that is, celebrate.
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
the clouds
7834 {7834} Primeשַׁחַקshachaq{shakh'-ak}
From H7833; a powder (as beaten small); by analogy a thin vapor; by extension the firmament.
in wisdom?
2451 {2451} Primeחָכְמָהchokmah{khok-maw'}
From H2449; wisdom (in a good sense).
or who
x4310 (4310) Complementמִיmiy{me}
An interrogitive pronoun of persons, as H4100 is of things, who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.
can stay
7901 {7901} Primeשָׁכַבshakab{shaw-kab'}
A primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose).
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
the bottles
5035 {5035} Primeנֶבֶלnebel{neh'-bel}
From H5034; a skin bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form).
of heaven,
8064 {8064} Primeשָׁמַיִםshamayim{shaw-mah'-yim}
The second form being dual of an unused singular; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve). |
Job 38:37
_ _ Who appoints by his wisdom the due measure of the clouds?
_ _ stay — rather, “empty”; literally, “lay down” or “incline” so as to pour out.
_ _ bottles of heaven — rain-filled clouds. |
Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the (y) bottles of heaven,
(y) That is, the clouds in which the water is contained as in bottles. |
- number:
Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Psalms 147:4 He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by [their] names.
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- or who:
Genesis 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that [was] with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
Genesis 9:15 And I will remember my covenant, which [is] between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
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- stay:
- Heb. cause to lie down
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