Job 38:35

"“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?"

Key Reflection

This verse challenges Job (and by extension, any reader) to acknowledge God's sovereignty over natural phenomena, suggesting that just as God controls the waters in the heavens, He also holds power and authority over our lives. It invites reflection on the limitations of human understanding and the vastness of divine control.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Canst thou send lightnings? -That is, lightning is wholly under the control of God. So it is now; for after all that man has done to discover its laws, and to guard against it, yet still man has made no advances toward a power to wield it, nor is it possible that he ever should. It is one of the agencies in the universe that is always to be under the divine direction, and however much man may subsidize to his purposes wind, and water, and steam, and air, yet there can be no prospect that the forked lightning can be seized by human hands and directed by human skill to purposes of utility or destruction among people; compare the notes atJob 36:31-33.

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