Job 38:34

Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Ver. 34. Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds?] Thy commanding voice, as Numbers 9:23. Some render it, Thy thunder. Will the clouds obey thee, and rain upon thee at thy pleasure? Something thou mayest get by thy prayers, as Elias did, James 5:17, and the thundering legion in the ecclesiastical history, but nothing by command or compulsion. The monarch of Mexico is a mad man to take an oath at his coronation, that it shall be what weather soever he pleaseth all the time of his reign (Lopez de Gomara).