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Job 37:6
6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’
Job 37:6 in other versions
- King James Version (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.
- New International Version (NIV)He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the rain shower, ‘Be a mighty downpour.’
- English Standard Version (ESV)For to the snow he says, 'Fall on the earth,' likewise to the downpour, his mighty downpour.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; Likewise to the gentle rain and the heavy rain of His strength.
Context of Job 37:6
4After it, His voice roars; He thunders with the voice of His majesty, And He does not restrain His lightning [against His adversaries] when His voice is heard. 5God thunders marvelously with His voice; He does great things which we cannot comprehend. For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth’; And [He speaks] to the showers and to the downpour [of His mighty rains], ‘Be strong.’ 7God seals (brings to a standstill, stops) [by severe weather] the hand of every man, That all men [whom He has made] may know His work [that is, His sovereign power and their subjection to it]. 8Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its hiding place.
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כִּ֤י לַשֶּׁ֨לַג׀ יֹאמַ֗ר הֱוֵ֫א אָ֥רֶץ וְגֶ֥שֶׁם מָטָ֑ר וְ֝גֶ֗שֶׁם מִטְר֥וֹת עֻזּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:6
- Job 38:22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow, Or have you seen the storehouses of the hail,
- Psalms 147:16He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool; He scatters the frost like ashes.
- Psalms 148:8Lightning and hail, snow and fog; Stormy wind, fulfilling His orders;
- Job 36:27For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,
- Genesis 7:10And after the seven days [God released the rain and] the floodwaters came on the earth.
- Ezra 10:9So all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered at Jerusalem within three days. It was the twentieth [day] of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the open square in front of the house of God, trembling because of [the seriousness of] this matter and because of the heavy rain.
- Proverbs 28:3A poor man who oppresses and exploits the lowly Is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food.
- Ezekiel 13:11so tell those who plaster it with whitewash, that it will fall! A flooding rain [of judgment] will come, and you, O [great] hailstones, will fall; and a violent wind will tear the wall apart.
- Amos 9:6It is He who builds His upper chambers in the heavens And has established His vaulted dome (the firmament of heaven) over the earth, He who calls to the waters of the sea And pours them out on the face of the earth— The Lord is His name.
- Matthew 7:25And the rain fell, and the floods and torrents came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock.
Commentaries on Job 37:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth - Snow is generally defined, "A well-known meteor, formed by the freezing of the vapours in the atmosphere." We may consider the formation of snow thus: - A cloud of vapours being condensed into drops, these drops, becoming too heavy to be suspended in the atmosphere, descend; and, meeting with a cold region of the air, they are frozen, each drop shooting into several points. These still continuing their…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6For he saith to the snow - That is, the snow is produced by the command of God, and is a proof of his wisdom and greatness. The idea is, that; the formation of snow was an illustration of the wisdom of God, and should teach people to regard him with reverence. It is not to be supposed that the laws by which snow is formed in the atmosphere were understood in the time of Elihu. The fact that it seemed to be the effect of the immediate creation of God, was…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. Be--more forcible than "fall," as Umbreit translates Ge 1:3. to the small rain, &c.--He saith, Be on the earth. The shower increasing from "small" to "great," is expressed by the plural "showers" (Margin), following the singular "shower." Winter rain (So 2:11).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 37
- 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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