Proverbs 3:20

In 11 translations

BSB

By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.

KJV

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

WEB

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

ASV

By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.

LSV

By His knowledge depths have been broken, || And clouds drop dew.

YLT

By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.

DBY

By his knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

DRC

By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew.

GNV

By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the dewe.

JPS

By His knowledge the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

LXXE

By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.

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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

בְּ֭דַעְתּוֹ תְּהוֹמ֣וֹת נִבְקָ֑עוּ וּ֝שְׁחָקִ֗ים יִרְעֲפוּ־טָֽל׃

LXX-Br

Ἐν αἰσθήσει ἄβυσσοι ἐῤῥάγησαν, νέφη δὲ ἐῤῥύησαν δρόσους.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

• Genesis 7:11In 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.
• Job 38:8–11Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket, when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, and I declared:…
• Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
• 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?
• Psalms 65:9–12You 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 1:9And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
• Job 36:27–28For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
• Genesis 27:37–39But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” Esau said to his…
• Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
• 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.
• 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.
• Psalms 104:8–9the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them— You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.

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