Job 37:6

4 Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.

5 God thunders wondrously with His voice; He does great things we cannot comprehend.

For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

7 He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.

8 The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
KJV
For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
WEB
For he says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.
ASV
For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.
DARBY
For he saith to the snow, Fall on the earth! and to the pouring rain, even the pouring rains of his might.
BLB
For to the snow He says, ‘Fall [on] the earth,’ and to the shower of rain, and to the shower, ‘[Be] the rains of His might.’
ÅB
Han sier til snøen: Fall til jorden! - og likeså til skyllregnet, sitt sterke skyllregn.
OTB
Til snøen befaler Han, ‘Fall på jorden,’
Og til regnskuren, ‘Vær sterk.’
B1930
Han sier til sneen: Fall til jorden! - og likeså til skyllregnet, sitt sterke skyllregn.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Job 38:22

    Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,

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  • Job 36:27

    For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

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  • Ezekiel 13:13

    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.

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  • Psalms 147:16–18

    He spreads the snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes;

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  • Ezra 10:9

    So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.

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  • Amos 9:6

    He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is His name.

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  • Psalms 148:8

    lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,

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  • Ezekiel 13:11

    tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.

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