Job 38:38
New International Version
when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together?

New Living Translation
when the parched ground is dry and the soil has hardened into clods?

English Standard Version
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods stick fast together?

Berean Standard Bible
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

King James Bible
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

New King James Version
When the dust hardens in clumps, And the clods cling together?

New American Standard Bible
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

NASB 1995
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

NASB 1977
When the dust hardens into a mass, And the clods stick together?

Legacy Standard Bible
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?

Amplified Bible
When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together [because of the heat]?

Christian Standard Bible
when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
when the dust hardens like cast metal and the clods of dirt stick together?

American Standard Version
When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Who poured the dust on the Earth, and who fashioned the cliffs?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For it is spread out as dusty earth, and I have cemented it as one hewn stone to another.

Contemporary English Version
on the dry, lumpy soil?

Douay-Rheims Bible
When was the dust poured on the earth, and the clods fastened together?

English Revised Version
When the dust runneth into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
when the dirt hardens into clumps and the soil clings together?

Good News Translation
rain that hardens the dust into lumps?

International Standard Version
when dust dries into a mass and then breaks apart into clods?

JPS Tanakh 1917
When the dust runneth into a mass, And the clods cleave fast together?

Literal Standard Version
In the hardening of dust into hardness, | And clods cleave together?

Majority Standard Bible
when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

New American Bible
So that the dust of earth is fused into a mass and its clods stick together?

NET Bible
when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

New Revised Standard Version
when the dust runs into a mass and the clods cling together?

New Heart English Bible
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

Webster's Bible Translation
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

World English Bible
when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

Young's Literal Translation
In the hardening of dust into hardness, And clods cleave together?

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Context
God Challenges Job
37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens 38when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together? 39Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions…

Cross References
Job 38:37
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Job 38:39
Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions


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When the dust grows into hardness, and the clods stuck fast together?

groweth into hardness.

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Job 38
1. God challenges Job to answer
4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31. and weakness














Verse 38. - When the dust groweth into hardness. 'Aphar (עָפַר) here, as often, means "earth," or "soil," rather than "dust." When by the heat of the sun's rays the ground grows into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together, baked into a compact mass, then is the time when rain is most needed, and when the Almighty in his mercy commonly sends it. The consideration of inanimate nature here ends, with the result that its mysteries altogether transcend the human intellect, and render speculation on the still deeper mysteries of the moral world wholly vain and futile.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
when the dust
עָ֭פָר (‘ā·p̄ār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

hardens
בְּצֶ֣קֶת (bə·ṣe·qeṯ)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3332: To pour out, to melt, cast as metal, to place firmly, to stiffen, grow hard

into a mass
לַמּוּצָ֑ק (lam·mū·ṣāq)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4165: Fusion, a casting, a mass

and the clods of earth
וּרְגָבִ֥ים (ū·rə·ḡā·ḇîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7263: A clod (of earth)

stick together?
יְדֻבָּֽקוּ׃ (yə·ḏub·bā·qū)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1692: To impinge, cling, adhere, to catch by pursuit


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