New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 36:27
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 it; Man beholds from afar. 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 drip upon man abundantly. 29Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?
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כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 36:27
- Job 5:9Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.
- Job 38:25“Who has cleft a channel for the flood, Or a way for the thunderbolt,
- Genesis 2:5Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- Psalms 65:9You visit the earth and cause it to overflow; You greatly enrich it; The stream of God is full of water; You prepare their grain, for thus You prepare the earth.
- Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste; It will not be pruned or hoed, But briars and thorns will come up. I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”
- Jeremiah 14:22Are there any among the idols of the nations who give rain? Or can the heavens grant showers? Is it not You, O Lord our God? Therefore we hope in You, For You are the one who has done all these things.
- Job 36:33Its noise declares His presence; The cattle also, concerning what is coming up.
- Psalms 148:8Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word;
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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