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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
38 so that the dust solidifies into a thick mass
    and the clods of earth cling together?

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36 Who gives the ibis wisdom[a](A)
    or gives the rooster understanding?[b](B)
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
    Who can tip over the water jars(C) of the heavens(D)
38 when the dust becomes hard(E)
    and the clods of earth stick together?(F)

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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.