Job 12:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: Also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ He withholds the waters, and the land dries up; again, He sends forth [rains], and they overwhelm the land or transform it.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ If he restricts water, they have drought; if he lets it loose, it overturns the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ If he restrains the waters, everything will dry up; and if he sends them forth, they will subdue the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.

Job 12:15 Cross References

Genesis 6:13

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.

Genesis 6:17

For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 8:1

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and all the domestic animals that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided;

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

1 Kings 17:7

But after a while the wadi dried up because there was no rain in the land.

Job 12:10

In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.

Job 28:25

When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned out the waters by measure,

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any idols of the nations bring rain, or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.

Amos 5:8

The one who made the Pleiades and Orion and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the water of the sea and pours it out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name,

Nahum 1:4

He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, and he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither, and the bloom of Lebanon fades.

Luke 4:25

But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months and there was a severe famine over all the land,

Deuteronomy 11:17

for then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will not yield its produce; then you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.

Revelation 11:6

They have authority to shut the sky, so that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.