Job 37:13
He does this to accomplish his will, either to discipline or to show his goodness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
In Context
12They swirl around under his control; they move over all the earth as he commands.
14Listen to this, Job! Stop for a moment and consider the wonderful things God does.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:18Then Samuel prayed to the Lord, and that very day the Lord sent thunder and rain. Everyone was in absolute awe of the Lord and of Samuel.
2 Samuel 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan at Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul's father Kish. Once they finished doing everything the king had ordered, God answered their prayers to end the famine in the land.
Ezra 10:9Within three days, everyone from Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square beside God's Temple, shivering because of this issue and also because of the heavy rain.
Job 37:6He tells the snow to fall and the rain to pour down on the earth.
Job 38:27to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
Psalms 65:10You fill the plowed furrows with water, you soften the ridges; you bless the growing crops.
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 →