Job 37:13
Whether for a rod, or for His land, || Or for kindness—He causes it to come.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
In Context
14Hear this, O Job, || Stand and consider the wonders of God.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:18And Samuel calls to YHWH, and YHWH gives voices and rain on that day, and all the people greatly fear YHWH and Samuel;
2 Samuel 21:14and bury the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of his father Kish, and do all that the king commanded, and God accepts the plea for the land afterward.
Ezra 10:9And all the men of Judah and Benjamin are gathered to Jerusalem by the third day, it [is] the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling on account of the matter and of the showers.
Job 37:6For He says to snow: Be [on] the earth. And the small rain and great rain of His power.
Job 38:27To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?
Psalms 65:10Its ridges have been filled, || Its furrow has been deepened, || You soften it with showers, || Its springing up You bless.
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 →