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Job 36:27
27For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,
Job 36:27 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
- New International Version (NIV)“He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,
Context of Job 36:27
25All men have seen God’s work; Man looks at it from a distance. 26Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable. For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist, 28Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind.” 29“Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds Or the thundering of His pavilion?
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כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 36:27
- Job 5:9Who does great and unsearchable things, Marvelous things without number.
- Job 38:25“Who has prepared a channel for the torrents of rain and for the flood, Or a path for the thunderbolt,
- Genesis 2:5no shrub or plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground,
- Psalms 65:9You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water]; You greatly enrich it; The stream of God is full of water; You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.
- Isaiah 5:6I will turn it into a wasteland; It will not be pruned or cultivated, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also command the clouds not to rain on it.”
- Jeremiah 14:22Are there any among the idols of the nations who can send rain? Or can the heavens [of their own will] give showers? Is it not You, O Lord our God? Therefore we will wait and hope [confidently] in You, For You are the one who has made all these things [the heavens and the rain].
- Job 36:33His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence; The cattle also are told of His coming storm.
- Psalms 148:8Lightning and hail, snow and fog; Stormy wind, fulfilling His orders;
Commentaries on Job 36:27
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27He maketh small the drops of water - This appears simply to refer to evaporation, and perhaps it would be better to translate יגרע yegara, "he exhales;" detaches the smallest particles of the aqueous mass from the surface in order to form clouds, as reservoirs for the purpose of furnishing rain for the watering of the earth. God is seen in little things, as well as great things; and the inconceivably little, as well as the stupendously great, are equally…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27For he maketh small the drops of water - Elihu now appeals, as he proposed to do, to the works of God, and begins with what appeared so remarkable and inexplicable, the wisdom of God in the rain and the dew, the tempest and the vapor. That which excited his wonder was, the fact in regard to the suspension of water in the clouds, and the distilling of it on the earth in the form of rain and dew. This very illustration had been used by Eliphaz for a similar…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-33Verses 24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought to give him the glory. But while the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the true believer should rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's voice, even when he speaks in terror to his…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 27-2827-28. The marvellous formation of rain (so Job 5:9, 10). maketh small--Rather, "He draweth (up) to Him, He attracts (from the earth below) the drops of water; they (the drops of water) pour down rain, (which is) His vapor." "Vapor" is in apposition with "rain," marking the way in which rain is formed; namely, from the vapor drawn up by God into the air and then condensed into drops, which fall (Psa 147:8). The suspension of such a mass of water, and its…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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