Job 37:12

And it is turning itself around by His counsels, || For their doing all He commands them, || On the face of the habitable earth.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

In Context

11Indeed, by filling He presses out a cloud, [and] His light scatters a cloud.

13Whether for a rod, or for His land, || Or for kindness—He causes it to come.

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Cross References

Psalms 104:24How many have been Your works, O YHWH, || You have made all of them in wisdom, || The earth is full of your possessions.

Jeremiah 14:22Are there any among the vanities of the nations causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Are You not He, O our God YHWH? And we wait for you, for You have done all these!

Amos 4:7“And I also—I have withheld from you the rain, || While yet three months to harvest, || And I have sent rain on one city, || And on another city I do not send rain, || One portion is rained on, || And the portion on which it does not rain withers.

Revelation 11:6These have authority to shut the sky, that rain may not rain in the days of their prophecy, and they have authority over the waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

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 →

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