Job 5:10
He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
In Context
9He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
11He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.
Cross References
Job 36:27He carries away the drops of rain, and he sends forth showers like a raging whirlpool;
Job 37:6He commands the snow to descend on earth, and the winter rains, and the shower of his strength.
Psalms 65:9He has set my soul toward life, and he has granted that my feet may not be shaken.
Psalms 147:8He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.
Jeremiah 10:13At his voice, he grants a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he lifts up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He causes the lightning with the rain, and he leads forth the wind from his storehouses.
Amos 4:7Therefore, I have withheld the rains from you, when there were still three months left until the harvest. And I rained on one city, and I did not rain on another city; one part was rained on, and the part on which I did not rain, dried out.
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 →