Job 5:10
8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
11 He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
12 He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
- KJV
- Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- WEB
- who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- ASV
- Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
- DARBY
- Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;
- BLB
- The One giving rain upon the face of the earth, and sending waters upon the face of the outside,
- ÅB
- som sender regn utover jorden og lar vann strømme utover markene,
- OTB
- Han gir regn på jorden,
Og sender vann over markene, - B1930
- som sender regn utover jorden og lar vann strømme utover markene,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Read in contextActs 14:17
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
Read in contextPsalms 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Read in contextJeremiah 14:22
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Read in contextPsalms 65:9–11
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Read in contextJob 28:26
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Read in contextJob 38:26–28
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
Read in contextJeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
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