34 “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an (A)abundance of water will cover you?
35 “Can you (B)send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 “Who has (C)put wisdom in the innermost being
Or given (D)understanding to the [a]mind?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 Or rooster

34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
    and cover yourself with a flood of water?(A)
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?(B)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](C)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](D)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:36 That is, wisdom about the flooding of the Nile
  2. Job 38:36 That is, understanding of when to crow; the meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.