Job 37:13
Sometimes God sends rain to punish us, and sometimes he sends rain to show us that he acts kindly toward us.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
In Context
14“Job, listen to this; stop and think about the wonderful things that God does.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:18Then Samuel prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh caused it to thunder and lightning and rain. So all the people became very afraid of Yahweh and of Samuel.
2 Samuel 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan in Zela town in the land of the tribe of Benjamin. Doing all that the king commanded, they buried their bones in the tomb where Saul’s father Kish was buried. After that, because God saw that Saul’s family had been punished to pay for Saul’s murder of many people from Gibeon, he answered the Israelis’ prayers for their land, and caused the famine to end.
Ezra 10:9So within three days, on December 19, all the people of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin gathered in Jerusalem. They were there, sitting in the courtyard in front of the temple. They were trembling because it was raining hard and because they were worried that they would be punished for what they had done.
Job 37:6He commands the snow to fall on the ground, and sometimes he causes it to rain very hard.
Job 38:27Who sends the rain that gives moisture/water to areas where nothing has grown, with the result that grass begins to grow again?
Psalms 65:10You send plenty of rain on the fields that have been plowed, and you fill the furrows with water. With showers you soften the hard clods/lumps of soil, and you bless the soil by causing young plants to grow.
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 →