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35 Will flashes of lightning come forth at your command
    and say to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who has endowed the heart with wisdom
    and given understanding to the mind?
37 Who can number all the rain clouds
    and empty the cisterns of the heavens

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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.