Proverbs 3:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ By his knowledge the depths are broken up, And the clouds drop down the dew.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ By His knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies distill the dew.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.

Common English Bible

²⁰ With his knowledge, the watery depths burst open, and the skies drop dew.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ By his wisdom, the abyss erupted and the clouds increased with dew.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ By his wisdom the depths have broken out, and the clouds grow thick with dew

Proverbs 3:20 Cross References

Genesis 1:9

And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

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.

Proverbs 8:24

When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.

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.

Joel 2:23

O children of Zion, be glad, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the later rain, as before.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lives in safety, untroubled is Jacob’s abode in a land of grain and wine, where the heavens drop down dew.