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Job 38:35-37
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35 Can you give a command to the lightning?
    Will it come to you and say, ‘Here we are; what do you want, sir?’
    Will it go wherever you want it to go?

36 “Who makes people wise?
    Who puts wisdom deep inside them?
37 Who is wise enough to count the clouds
    and tip them over to pour out their rain?

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Job 38:35-37
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35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?(A)
    Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](B)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](C)
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars(D) of the heavens(E)

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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.
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