Job 37:13
He makes all of this happen; sometimes it happens for correction, sometimes for his land, 1 and sometimes as acts of covenant faithfulness. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
In Context
14Listen to this, Job; 1 stop and think about God's marvelous deeds. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called to Yahweh; and that same day Yahweh sent thunder and rain. Then all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
2 Samuel 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father. They performed all that the king commanded. After that God answered their prayers for the land.
Ezra 10:9So all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem in three days. It was the ninth month and the twentieth day of the month. All the people stood in the square before God's house and trembled because of the word and the rain.
Job 37:6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth'; 1 likewise to the rain shower, 1 'Become a great shower of rain.' 1
Job 38:27to satisfy the devastated and desolate places, 1 and to make the ground sprout with grass? 1
Psalms 65:10You water its furrows abundantly; 1 you settle down the furrows' ridges; 1 you make them soft with rain showers; 1 you bless the sprouts between them. 1
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 →