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Job 37:6
6“He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down.
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
4Then comes the roaring of the thunder— the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks. 5God’s voice is glorious in the thunder. We can’t even imagine the greatness of his power. “He directs the snow to fall on the earth and tells the rain to pour down. 7Then everyone stops working so they can watch his power. 8The wild animals take cover and stay inside their dens.
Read all of Job 37Job 37:6 word by word
כִּ֤י לַשֶּׁ֨לַג׀ יֹאמַ֗ר הֱוֵ֫א אָ֥רֶץ וְגֶ֥שֶׁם מָטָ֑ר וְ֝גֶ֗שֶׁם מִטְר֥וֹת עֻזּֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 37:6
- Job 38:22“Have you visited the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of hail?
- Psalms 147:16He sends the snow like white wool; he scatters frost upon the ground like ashes.
- Psalms 148:8fire and hail, snow and clouds, wind and weather that obey him,
- Job 36:27He draws up the water vapor and then distills it into rain.
- Genesis 7:10After seven days, the waters of the flood came and covered the earth.
- Ezra 10:9Within three days, all the people of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. This took place on December 19, and all the people were sitting in the square before the Temple of God. They were trembling both because of the seriousness of the matter and because it was raining.
- Proverbs 28:3A poor person who oppresses the poor is like a pounding rain that destroys the crops.
- Ezekiel 13:11Tell these whitewashers that their wall will soon fall down. A heavy rainstorm will undermine it; great hailstones and mighty winds will knock it down.
- Amos 9:6The Lord’s home reaches up to the heavens, while its foundation is on the earth. He draws up water from the oceans and pours it down as rain on the land. The Lord is his name!
- Matthew 7:25Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock.
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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