Job 36:29
Good News Translation
No one knows how the clouds move or how the thunder roars through the sky, where God dwells.

New Revised Standard Version
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Contemporary English Version
Who can understand how God scatters the clouds and speaks from his home in the thunderstorm?

New American Bible
Can anyone understand the spreading clouds, the thunderings from his tent?

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If he will spread out clouds as his tent,

the spreadings

Job 37:16 Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?

Job 38:9,37 When I made a cloud the garment thereof, and wrapped it in a mist as in swaddling bands? . . .

1 Kings 18:44,45 And at the seventh time: Behold a little cloud arose out of the sea like a man's foot. And he said: Go up, and say to Achab: Prepare thy chariot, and go down, lest the rain prevent thee. . . .

Psalm 104:3 Who coverest the higher rooms thereof with water. Who makest the clouds thy chariot: who walkest upon the wings of the winds.

the noise

Job 37:2-5 Hear ye attentively the terror of his voice, and the sound that cometh out of his mouth. . . .

Psalm 18:13 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire.

Psalm 29:3-10 The voice of the Lord is upon the waters; the God of majesty hath thundered, The Lord is upon many waters. . . .

Psalm 77:16-19 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee: and they were afraid, and the depths were troubled. . . .

Psalm 104:7 At thy rebuke they shall flee: at the voice of thy thunder they shall fear.

Nahum 1:3 The Lord is patient, and great in power, and will not cleanse and acquit the guilty. The Lord's ways are in a tempest, and a whirlwind, and clouds are the dust of his feet.

Habakkuk 3:10 The mountains saw thee, and were grieved: the great body of waters passed away. The deep put forth its voice: the deep lifted up its hands.

Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
28Which flow from the clouds that cover all above. 29If he will spread out clouds as his tent,30And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 22:12
He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.

Job 26:14
Lo, these things are said in part of his ways: and seeing we have heard scarce a little drop of his word, who shall be able to behold the thunder of his greatness?

Job 36:28
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

Job 36:30
And lighten with his light from above, he shall cover also the ends of the sea.

Job 37:11
Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light:

Job 37:16
Knowest thou the great paths of the clouds, and the perfect knowledges?

Isaiah 40:22
It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.

Job 36:28
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