New Living Translation
Job 5:10
10He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
Job 5:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- New International Version (NIV)He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside.
- English Standard Version (ESV)he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
- New King James Version (NKJV)He gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields.
Context of Job 5:10
8“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him. 9He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles. He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields. 11He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer. 12He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.
Read all of Job 5Job 5:10 word by word
הַנֹּתֵ֣ן מָ֭טָר עַל־פְּנֵי־אָ֑רֶץ וְשֹׁ֥לֵֽחַ מַ֝יִם עַל־פְּנֵ֥י חוּצֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 5:10
- Job 28:26He made the laws for the rain and laid out a path for the lightning.
- Psalms 65:9You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The river of God has plenty of water; it provides a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so.
- Psalms 147:8He covers the heavens with clouds, provides rain for the earth, and makes the grass grow in mountain pastures.
- Jeremiah 5:24They do not say from the heart, ‘Let us live in awe of the Lord our God, for he gives us rain each spring and fall, assuring us of a harvest when the time is right.’
- Jeremiah 10:13When he speaks in the thunder, the heavens roar with rain. He causes the clouds to rise over the earth. He sends the lightning with the rain and releases the wind from his storehouses.
- Jeremiah 14:22Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain? Does it fall from the sky by itself? No, you are the one, O Lord our God! Only you can do such things. So we will wait for you to help us.
- Amos 4:7“I kept the rain from falling when your crops needed it the most. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
- Acts 14:17but he never left them without evidence of himself and his goodness. For instance, he sends you rain and good crops and gives you food and joyful hearts.”
- Job 38:26Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?
Commentaries on Job 5:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Who giveth rain upon the earth - The Chaldee gives this verse a fine turn: "Who gives rain on the face of the land of Israel, and sends waters on the face of the provinces of the people." Similar to our Lord's saying, which is expressed in the half of the compass: Your Father which is in heaven - Sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust; Matthew 5:45. Sendeth waters upon the fields - The term חצות chutsoth, which we translate fields, and generally…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Who giveth rain upon the earth - In the previous verse, Eliphaz had said, in general, that God did wonderful things - things which are fitted to lead us to put our trust in him. In this and the succeeding verses, he descends to particulars, and specifies those things which show that God is worthy to be confided in. This enunciation continues to Job 5:16, and the general scope is, that the agency of God is seen everywhere; and that his providential…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Eliphaz reminds Job, that no affliction comes by chance, nor is to be placed to second causes. The difference between prosperity and adversity is not so exactly observed, as that between day and night, summer and winter; but it is according to the will and counsel of God. We must not attribute our afflictions to fortune, for they are from God; nor our sins to fate, for they are from ourselves. Man is born in sin, and therefore born to trouble…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10The region where Job lived relied on rain instead of human methods to water crops (see 36:27–28).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271. if there be any, &c.--Rather, "will He (God) reply to thee?" Job, after the revelation just given, cannot be so presumptuous as to think God or any of the holy ones (Da 4:17, "angels") round His throne, will vouchsafe a reply (a judicial expression) to his rebellious complaint.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 5
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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