when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
Job 36:27 - Revised Standard Version For he draws up the drops of water, he distils his mist in rain Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he maketh small the drops of water: They pour down rain according to the vapour thereof: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For He draws up the drops of water, which distil as rain from His vapor, American Standard Version (1901) For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor, Common English Bible He draws up drops of water that distill rain from his flood; Catholic Public Domain Version He carries away the drops of rain, and he sends forth showers like a raging whirlpool; Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods: |
when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Its crashing declares concerning him, who is jealous with anger against iniquity.
He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’; and to the shower and the rain, ‘Be strong.’
“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you?
who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
He covers the heavens with clouds, he prepares rain for the earth, he makes grass grow upon the hills.
by his knowledge the deeps broke forth, and the clouds drop down the dew.
I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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 lightnings for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.