Job 38:35
Good News Translation
And if you command the lightning to flash, will it come to you and say, "At your service"?

New Revised Standard Version
Can you send forth lightnings, so that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Contemporary English Version
or will lightning flash at your command?

New American Bible
Can you send forth the lightnings on their way, so that they say to you, “Here we are”?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?

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Exodus 9:23-25,29 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. . . .

Leviticus 10:2 And fire coming out from the Lord destroyed them: and they died before the Lord.

Numbers 11:1 In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. And when the Lord heard it he was angry. And the fire of the Lord being kindled against them, devoured them that were at the uttermost part of the camp.

Numbers 16:35 And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.

2 Kings 1:10,14 And Elias answering, said to the captain of fifty: If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven and consume thee, and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him, and the fifty that were with him. . . .

Revelation 11:5,6 And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain. . . .

Here we are.

1 Samuel 22:12 And Saul said to Achimelech: Hear, thou son of Achitob. He answered: Here I am, my lord.

Isaiah 6:8 And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.

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Isaiah 65:1 They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.

Context
God Challenges Job
34Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that an abundance of waters may cover thee? 35Canst thou send lightnings, and will they go, and will they return and say to thee: Here we are?36Who hath put wisdom in the heart of man? or who gave the cock understanding?…
Cross References
Job 36:32
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.

Job 37:3
He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.

Job 38:34
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