Job 37:13
Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness — He doth cause it to come.
Young's Literal Translation
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 calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel;
2 Samuel 21:14and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.
Ezra 10:9And gathered are all the men of Judah and Benjamin 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 to snow He saith, 'Be [on] the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.
Job 38:27To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
Psalms 65:10Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.
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 →