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Job 38:37


Job 38:36 Job 38:37 (KJV) Job 38:38
Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Who can numberH5608 the cloudsH7834 in wisdomH2451? or who can stayH7901 the bottlesH5035 of heavenH8064,


Original Hebrew

מִי־יְסַפֵּר שְׁחָקִים בְּחָכְמָה וְנִבְלֵי מַיִם מִי יַשְׁכִּיב׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
מִֽי
mi- H4310 HTi who?
יְסַפֵּ֣ר
ye.sa.Per H5608 HVpi3ms will he count
שְׁחָקִ֣ים
she.cha.Kim H7834 HNcmpa (the) clouds
בְּ/חָכְמָ֑ה
be./cha.khe.Mah H2451 HR/Ncfsa by/ wisdom
וְ/נִבְלֵ֥י
ve./niv.Lei H5035 HC/Ncmpc and/ (the) waterskins of
שָׁ֝מַ֗יִם
Sha.Ma.yim H8064 HNcmpa heaven
מִ֣י
mi H4310 HTi who?
יַשְׁכִּֽיב
yash.Kiv H7901 HVhi3ms will he make to lie down
Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)
Strong's References
  • H2451 — חׇכְמָה (chokmâh, khok-maw'): from חָכַם; wisdom (in a good sense); skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
  • H5035 — נֶבֶל (nebel, neh'-bel): or נֵבֶל; from נָבֵל; a skin-bag for liquids (from collapsing when empty); hence, a vase (as similar in shape when full); also a lyre (as having a body of like form); bottle, pitcher, psaltery, vessel, viol.
  • H5608 — סָפַר (çâphar, saw-far'): a primitive root; properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate; commune, (ac-) count; declare, number, [phrase] penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
  • H7834 — שַׁחַק (shachaq, shakh'-ak): from שָׁחַק; a powder (as beaten small); by analogy, a thin vapor; by extension, the firmament; cloud, small dust, heaven, sky.
  • H7901 — שָׁכַב (shâkab, shaw-kab'): a primitive root; to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose); [idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.
  • H8064 — שָׁמַיִם (shâmayim, shaw-mah'-yim): dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve); air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

  • H4310 — מִי (mîy, me): an interrogative pronoun of persons, as מָה is of things,; who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix; any (man), [idiom] he, [idiom] him, [phrase] O that! what, which, who(-m, -se, -soever), [phrase] would to God.
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Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

Reciprocal references (6): Genesis 8:2, Job 26:8, Job 36:29, Job 37:13, Psalms 104:13, Jeremiah 5:24

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