But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
Job 37:6 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; Likewise to the small rain, And to the great rain of his strength. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For He says to the snow, Fall on the earth; likewise He speaks to the showers and to the downpour of His mighty rains. American Standard Version (1901) For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain. Common English Bible He says to the snow, “Fall to earth,” and to the downpour of rain, “Be a mighty shower.” Catholic Public Domain Version He commands the snow to descend on earth, and the winter rains, and the shower of his strength. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength. |
But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together unto Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof;
Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.
say unto them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.