Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
In Context
9Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:
11Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;
Cross References
Job 36:27For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Job 37:6For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.
Psalms 65:9\65:8\Those in the farthest parts of the earth have fear when they see your signs: the outgoings of the morning and evening are glad because of you.
Psalms 147:8By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.
Jeremiah 10:13At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
Amos 4:7And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →