Job 36:27
He draws water up from the earth and puts it in clouds and causes it to become rain.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
In Context
28The rain pours down from the sky/clouds; God causes abundant showers to fall on everyone.
Cross References
Genesis 2:5At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.
Job 5:10He sends rain on the ground; he sends water on our fields.
Job 36:33When we hear his thunder, we know that there will be a storm, and the cattle know it, too.”
Job 38:34“Can you shout to the clouds and cause rain to pour down on you?
Psalms 147:8He covers the sky with clouds, and then he sends rain to the earth and causes grass to grow on the hills.
Proverbs 3:20By his knowledge he caused the water that was beneath the earth to burst forth, and he caused rain to fall from the clouds.
Matthew Henry on Job 36:25-33
24 Remember that thou magnify his work, which men behold. 25 Every man may see it; man may behold it afar off. 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out. 27 For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: 28 Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. 29 Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? 30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the… Read the whole commentary →