Tree of Life Version
Job 37:13
13Whether it is a rod of punishment or for His land or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.
Job 37:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
- New International Version (NIV)He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He causes it to come, Whether for correction, Or for His land, Or for mercy.
Context of Job 37:13
11He loads the cloud with moisture; He scatters His cloud of lightning. 12It swirls around by His guidance, to do whatever He commands on the face of the inhabited world. Whether it is a rod of punishment or for His land or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen. 14“Listen to this, Job: stand and consider God’s wonders. 15Do you know how God orders them, and makes the lightning flash in His cloud?
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אִם־לְשֵׁ֥בֶט אִם־לְאַרְצ֑וֹ אִם־לְ֝חֶ֗סֶד יַמְצִאֵֽהוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 37:13
- Job 37:6“For to the snow He says, ‘Fall to the earth,’ and to the torrential rain— be a mighty downpour of rain.
- Job 36:31For by these, He judges peoples and supplies food in abundance.
- Job 38:37Who can count the clouds by wisdom, or tip over the water jars of heaven,
- Exodus 9:18Behold, tomorrow at about this time, I will cause it to rain a very severe hailstorm, the likes of which has not occurred in Egypt since the day it was founded until now.
- 1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel prayed to Adonai, and Adonai sent thunder and rain that day. Then all the people greatly feared Adonai and Samuel,
- Ezra 10:9So within three days all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem. On the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people were sitting in the plaza before the House of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rain.
- Job 38:26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert with no one in it,
- 2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it on the rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until the rain poured on them from the sky. She did not let the birds of the sky rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 1 Kings 18:45In a little while the sky grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. Ahab mounted and rode, and headed to Jezreel.
- Joel 2:23So be glad, children of Zion, and rejoice in Adonai, your God. For He gives you the early rain for prosperity, Yes, He will bring down rain for you, the early and latter rain as before.
Commentaries on Job 37:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13He causeth it to come - The Vulgate translates the text thus: Sive in una tribu, sine in terra sua, sive in quocunque loco misericordiae suae eas jusserit inveniri. "Whether in one tribe, or whether in his own land, or in whatsoever place of his mercy he has commanded them to come." In the preceding verse it is said that God conducts the clouds according to the orders of his counsels, whithersoever he pleases: and here it is added that, when he designs to…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13He causeth it to come - That is, the rain, or the storm. It is entirely under the hand of God, like the lightning Job 36:30, and designed to accomplish his purposes of mercy and of justice. Whether for correction - Margin, as in Hebrew “a rod.” The rod is often used as an emblem of punishment. The idea is, that God, when he pleases, can send the rain upon the earth for the purpose of executing punishment. So he did on the old world Genesis 7:11-12, and so…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13God's actions can have multiple purposes. For example, storms can both destroy enemies and bring victory to God's people (Joshua 10; Judges 4; 1 Samuel 7:10–11; Psalms 18:7–15; 105:32–33).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-1311-13. How the thunderclouds are dispersed, or else employed by God, either for correction or mercy. by watering--by loading it with water. wearieth--burdeneth it, so that it falls in rain; thus "wearieth" answers to the parallel "scattereth" (compare, see on Job 37:9); a clear sky resulting alike from both. bright cloud--literally, "cloud of his light," that is, of His lightning. Umbreit for "watering," &c., translates; "Brightness drives away the…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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