Job 37:15
New International Version
Do you know how God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?

New Living Translation
Do you know how God controls the storm and causes the lightning to flash from his clouds?

English Standard Version
Do you know how God lays his command upon them and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Berean Standard Bible
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

King James Bible
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

New King James Version
Do you know when God dispatches them, And causes the light of His cloud to shine?

New American Standard Bible
“Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

NASB 1995
“Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

NASB 1977
“Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

Legacy Standard Bible
Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

Amplified Bible
“Do you know how God establishes and commands them, And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?

Christian Standard Bible
Do you know how God directs his clouds or makes their lightning flash?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do you know how God directs His clouds or makes their lightning flash?

American Standard Version
Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Behold, do you know the thing that God appointed upon them and he has revealed the light of his clouds?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
We know that god has disposed his works, having made light out of darkness.

Contemporary English Version
Can you explain why lightning flashes at the orders

Douay-Rheims Bible
Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?

English Revised Version
Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, and causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do you know how God controls them and makes the lightning flash from his clouds?

Good News Translation
Do you know how God gives the command and makes lightning flash from the clouds?

International Standard Version
Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Dost thou know how God enjoineth them, And causeth the lightning of His cloud to shine?

Literal Standard Version
Do you know when God places them, | And caused the light of His cloud to shine?

Majority Standard Bible
Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash?

New American Bible
Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and makes the light shine forth from his clouds?

NET Bible
Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

New Revised Standard Version
Do you know how God lays his command upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

New Heart English Bible
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Webster's Bible Translation
Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

World English Bible
Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
14Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God. 15Do you know how God dispatches the clouds or makes the lightning flash? 16Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?…

Cross References
Job 37:11
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Job 37:14
Listen to this, O Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

Job 37:16
Do you understand how the clouds float, those wonders of Him who is perfect in knowledge?


Treasury of Scripture

Do you know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Dost

Job 28:24-27
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; …

Job 34:13
Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

Job 38:4
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

the light

Job 37:11
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:

Job 36:30-32
Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea…

Job 38:24,25
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth? …

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Job 37
1. God is to be feared because of his great works
15. His wisdom is unsearchable in them














(15) Light of His cloud--i.e., lightning, as before. "Dost thou know all the secrets of God's thunderbolts, at whom and how He will use them?" Some understand this otherwise: "Dost thou know when God setteth the sun over them (the clouds), and causeth the light (i.e., the sun) to shine upon His cloud?" i.e., "Dost thou know how God useth the sun to disperse the clouds?"

Verse 15. - Dost thou know when God disposed them; rather, disposes them - gives them their orders, arranges for their course and sequence? Or dost thou know when he caused (or rather, causes) the light of his cloud (either the lightning, or perhaps the rainbow, as Schultens suggests) to shine Thou canst not pretend to any such knowledge.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Do you know
הֲ֭תֵדַע (hă·ṯê·ḏa‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3045: To know

how God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

dispatches
בְּשׂוּם־ (bə·śūm-)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the clouds
עֲנָנֽוֹ׃ (‘ă·nā·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6051: A cloud, the nimbus, thunder-cloud

or makes the lightning
א֣וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

flash?
וְ֝הוֹפִ֗יעַ (wə·hō·w·p̄î·a‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3313: To shine out or forth, to send out beams, cause to shine


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