Job 37:13
Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
In Context
14Hearken unto this, Job; stand still and discern the wondrous works of God.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:18And Samuel called to Jehovah; and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.
2 Samuel 21:14And they buried [them] with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.
Ezra 10:9Then were all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open space of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the pouring rain.
Job 37:6For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.
Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
Psalms 65:10Thou dost satiate its furrows, thou smoothest its clods, thou makest it soft with showers; thou blessest the springing thereof.
Matthew Henry on Job 37:7-14
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work. 8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places. 9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. 10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened. 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 12 And it is turned round about by… Read the whole commentary →