Bible in Basic English
"Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?"
— Job 38:34, Bible in Basic English
“ Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? ”
Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose?
Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you?
Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?
Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?
Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?
Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?
By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,