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Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him

Job 5:10

In 11 translations

BSB
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
KJV
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:fields: Heb. outplaces
WEB
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
ASV
Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
LSV
Who is giving rain on the face of the land, || And is sending waters on the out-places.
YLT
Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
DBY
Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;
DRC
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
GNV
He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
JPS
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields;
LXXE
who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
הַנֹּתֵ֣ן מָ֭טָר עַל־פְּנֵי־אָ֑רֶץ וְשֹׁ֥לֵֽחַ מַ֝יִם עַל־פְּנֵ֥י חוּצֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
τὸν διδόντα ὑετὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ἀποστέλλοντα ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανὸν,

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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.”
  • Jeremiah 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
  • Psalms 65:9–11You 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…
  • Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
  • 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.
  • Job 38:26–28to 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 rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
  • Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
  • Job 28:26when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
  • Jeremiah 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  • Job 36:28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

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