Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

New American Standard Bible

“Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds,
The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

King James Version

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

Holman Bible

Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?

International Standard Version

Do you understand his wondrous work of balancing the clouds, the one whose knowledge is perfect,

A Conservative Version

Do thou know the balancing of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

American Standard Version

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, The wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Bible in Basic English

Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

Darby Translation

Dost thou know about the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him that is perfect in knowledge?

Julia Smith Translation

Shalt thou know upon the poisings of the cloud, the wonders of the complete of knowledges?

King James 2000

Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is blameless in knowledge?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do you know about the hovering of the clouds, {the marvelous works of the one with perfect knowledge}?

Modern King James verseion

Do you know the balancing of the clouds, the wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Art thou of his counsel, when he spreadeth out the clouds? Hast thou the perfect knowledge of his wonders?

NET Bible

Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

New Heart English Bible

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

The Emphasized Bible

Canst thou get to know concerning the poisings of the thick cloud, the wonders of one who is perfect in knowledge?

Webster

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

World English Bible

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Youngs Literal Translation

Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מפלשׂ 
Miphlas 
Usage: 1

of the clouds
עב 
`ab 
Usage: 32

מפלאה 
Miphla'ah 
Usage: 1

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

15
“Do you know how God establishes and commands them,
And makes the lightning of His [storm] cloud shine?
16 
“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,
17
You whose garments are hot,
When He quiets the earth [in sultry summer] with the [oppressive] south wind?


Cross References

Job 36:4


“For truly my words are not false;
He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 26:8


“He wraps the waters in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once],
And the cloud does not burst under them.

Job 36:29


“Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds
Or the thundering of His pavilion?

Psalm 104:2-3


[You are the One] who covers Yourself with light as with a garment,
Who stretches out the heavens like a tent curtain,

Psalm 104:24


O Lord, how many and varied are Your works!
In wisdom You have made them all;
The earth is full of Your riches and Your creatures.

Psalm 147:5


Great is our [majestic and mighty] Lord and abundant in strength;
His understanding is inexhaustible [infinite, boundless].

Proverbs 3:19-20


The Lord by His wisdom has founded the earth;
By His understanding He has established the heavens.

Isaiah 40:22


It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veil
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Jeremiah 10:12-13


God made the earth by His power;
He established the world by His wisdom
And by His understanding and skill He has stretched out the heavens.

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