Job 5:10
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
World English Bible Catholic
In The King James Version
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
In Context
9who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Cross References
Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
Job 37:6For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
Psalms 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Jeremiah 10:13When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
Amos 4:7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One field was rained on, and the field where it didn’t rain withered.
Matthew Henry on Job 5:7-17
6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: 9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their… Read the whole commentary →