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Elihu Describes God’s Power

Job 36:31

In 11 translations

BSB
For by these He judges the nations and provides food in abundance.Or governs or nourishes
KJV
For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
WEB
For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
ASV
For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
LSV
For He judges peoples by them, || He gives food in abundance.
YLT
For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
DBY
For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
DRC
For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.
GNV
For thereby hee iudgeth the people, and giueth meate abundantly.
JPS
For by these He judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
LXXE
For by them he will judge the nations: he will give food to him that has strength.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּי־בָ֭ם יָדִ֣ין עַמִּ֑ים יִֽתֶּן־אֹ֥כֶל לְמַכְבִּֽיר׃
LXX-Br
Ἐν γὰρ αὐτοῖς κρινεῖ λαούς, δώσει τροφὴν τῷ ἰσχύοντι.

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  • Psalms 136:25He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
  • Acts 14:17Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
  • Job 37:13Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
  • Psalms 104:13–15He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works. He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth: wine…
  • Psalms 104:27–28All creatures look to You to give them their food in due season. When You give it to them, they gather it up; when You open Your hand, they are satisfied with good things.
  • Job 38:26–27to 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?
  • 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…
  • Genesis 7:17–24For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth. So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the…
  • Job 38:22–23Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail, which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
  • 1 Samuel 7:10As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before…
  • Deuteronomy 8:2Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
  • Exodus 9:23–25So Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and lightning struck the earth. So the LORD rained down hail upon the land of Egypt. The hail fell and the lightning continued…
  • 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.
  • Joshua 10:11As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.
  • Genesis 19:24Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.
  • Deuteronomy 8:15He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.

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