Job 37:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

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  • Job 36:27 : 27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
  • Job 38:22 : 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,
  • Ps 147:16-18 : 16 He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust. 17 He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold. 18 At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A man of wealth who is cruel to the poor is like a violent rain causing destruction of food.
  • Ezek 13:11 : 11 Say to those who put whitewash on it, There will be an overflowing shower; and you, O ice-drops, will come raining down; and it will be broken in two by the storm-wind.
  • Ezek 13:13 : 13 For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.
  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. 26 And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; 27 And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.
  • Gen 7:10-12 : 10 And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open; 12 And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.
  • Ezra 10:9 : 9 Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin came together to Jerusalem before three days were past; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people were seated in the wide square in front of the house of God, shaking with fear because of this business and because of the great rain.
  • Ezra 10:13 : 13 But the number of people is great, and it is a time of much rain; it is not possible for us to go on waiting outside, and this is not a thing which may be done in one day or even two: for our sin in this business is great.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 36:27-29
    3 verses
    84%

    27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

    28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

    29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

  • Job 37:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

    4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

    5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

  • 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

  • 16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Job 37:10-18
    9 verses
    79%

    10 By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

    11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

    12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

    13 For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

    14 Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

    17 You, whose clothing is warm, when the earth is quiet because of the south wind,

    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Ps 147:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15 He sends out his orders to the earth; his word goes out quickly.

    16 He gives snow like wool; he sends out ice-drops like dust.

    17 He sends down ice like raindrops: water is made hard by his cold.

    18 At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

  • 26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

  • 13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Job 38:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

    26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

  • 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

  • 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • 7 He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

  • 10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;

  • 22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

  • Job 38:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

    35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

  • Job 36:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

    33 The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

  • 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • 8 By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

  • 8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

  • 6 May he come down like rain on the cut grass; like showers watering the earth.

  • 6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

  • 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

  • 1 Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

  • Ps 77:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

    18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

  • 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

  • 12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

  • 25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

  • 2 My teaching is dropping like rain, coming down like dew on the fields; like rain on the young grass and showers on the garden plants:

  • 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.