Job 12:15

In 11 translations

BSB

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

KJV

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

WEB

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

ASV

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

LSV

Behold, He keeps in the waters, and they are dried up, || And He sends them forth, || And they overturn the land.

YLT

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

DBY

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

DRC

If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.

GNV

Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.

JPS

Behold, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

LXXE

If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֵ֤ן יַעְצֹ֣ר בַּמַּ֣יִם וְיִבָ֑שׁוּ וִֽ֝ישַׁלְּחֵ֗ם וְיַ֖הַפְכוּ אָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν κωλύσῃ τὸ ὕδωρ, ξηρανεῖ τὴν γῆν· ἐὰν δὲ ἐπαφῇ, ἀπώλεσεν αὐτὴν καταστρέψας.

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• 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
• Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
• Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
• Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
• Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
• James 5:17–18Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
• Genesis 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
• Psalms 104:7–9At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away— the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them— You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never…
• Genesis 7:11–8:2In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. And the rain fell upon the earth for…
• 1 Kings 8:35–36When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, then may…
• Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
• Revelation 11:6These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
• Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Deuteronomy 11:17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

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