Job 37:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.”
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“Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness--He doth cause it to come.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 37:13 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 9:18Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.
- 1 Samuel 12:18So Samuel called to the LORD, and on that day the LORD sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
- 2 Samuel 21:10And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
- 2 Samuel 21:14And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
- 1 Kings 18:45Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
- Ezra 10:9So within the three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin assembled in Jerusalem, and on the twentieth day of the ninth month, all the people sat in the square at the house of God, trembling regarding this matter and because of the heavy rain.
- Job 36:31For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.
- Job 37:6For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’
- Job 38:26to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- Job 38:27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- Psalms 65:10You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it with showers and bless its growth.
- Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
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