Job 36:27

In 11 translations

BSB

For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

KJV

For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

WEB

For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

ASV

For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

LSV

When He diminishes droppings of the waters, || They refine rain according to its vapor,

YLT

When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

DBY

For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

DRC

He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

GNV

When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne powreth down by the vapour thereof,

JPS

For He draweth away the drops of water, which distil rain from His vapour;

LXXE

And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.

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WLC

כִּ֭י יְגָרַ֣ע נִטְפֵי־מָ֑יִם יָזֹ֖קּוּ מָטָ֣ר לְאֵדֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀριθμηταὶ δὲ αὐτῷ σταγόνες ὑετοῦ, καὶ ἐπιχυθήσονται ὑετῷ εἰς νεφέλην.

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• Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
• Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
• Job 38:25–28Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt, to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives, to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass? Does the…
• Psalms 65:9–13You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth. You soak its furrows and level its ridges; You soften it…
• Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
• Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• 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.
• Genesis 2:5–6Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But springs welled…
• Job 38:34Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
• Job 36:33The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.

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