Job 38:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ To cause it to rain on the uninhabited land [and] on the desert where no man lives,

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Common English Bible

²⁶ to bring water to uninhabited land, a desert with no human

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ so that it would rain on the earth far from man, in the wilderness where no mortal lingers,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:

Job 38:26 Cross References

Job 28:26

when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,

Job 36:27

For he draws up the drops of water; he distills his mist in rain,

Job 37:13

Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen.

Job 38:25

“Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain and a way for the thunderbolt,

Job 5:10

He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

Psalm 107:35

He turns a desert into pools of water, a parched land into springs of water.

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Psalm 65:12

The pastures of the wilderness overflow; the hills gird themselves with joy;

Jeremiah 10:13

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

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.