Job 38:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 107:35 : 35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.
  • Ps 147:8-9 : 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. 9 He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
  • Isa 35:1-2 : 1 The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers. 2 It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.
  • Job 36:27 : 27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
  • Ps 104:10-14 : 10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field; the mountain asses come to them for water. 12 The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches. 13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works. 14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
  • Isa 43:19-20 : 19 See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country. 20 The beasts of the field will give me honour, the jackals and the ostriches: because I send out waters in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country, to give drink to the people whom I have taken for myself:
  • Jer 14:22 : 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.
  • Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God: 8 But if it sends up thorns and evil plants, it is of no use and is ready to be cursed; its only end is to be burned.
  • Isa 41:18-19 : 18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water. 19 I will put in the waste land the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive-tree; and in the lowland will be planted the fir-tree, the plane, and the cypress together:

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    27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

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

  • Job 38:24-25
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    82%

    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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  • Job 36:27-29
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    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 37:6
    77%

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

  • Job 5:10
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    10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • Ps 135:7
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    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.

  • Jer 51:16
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    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 37:11-12
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    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,

  • Jer 14:22
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    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.

  • Job 28:26
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    26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

  • Job 38:34-35
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    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?

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    7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

  • Ps 107:33-35
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    33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

    34 He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

    35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

  • Isa 55:10
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    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;

  • Ezek 34:26
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    26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.

  • Zech 10:1
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    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.

  • Jer 10:13
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    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 12:15
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    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 36:32
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    32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

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    18 I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Gen 2:5-6
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    5 In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6 But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

  • Job 26:8
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    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

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    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.

  • Jer 14:4
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    4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

  • Job 28:4
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    4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • Job 38:37
    71%

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

  • 2 Kgs 3:17
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    17 For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

  • Heb 6:7
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    7 For a land, drinking in the frequent rain and producing good plants for those for whom it is worked, has a blessing from God:

  • Nah 1:4
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    4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • Job 37:3
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    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

  • Jer 17:6
    71%

    6 For he will be like the brushwood in the upland, and will not see when good comes; but his living-place will be in the dry places in the waste land, in a salt and unpeopled land.

  • Job 39:6
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    6 They are bent down, they give birth to their young, they let loose the fruit of their body.

  • Isa 50:2
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    2 Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

  • Ps 104:13
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    13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

  • Job 28:11
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    11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • Job 37:21
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    21 And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

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    10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.

  • Ps 148:8
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    8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

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    3 If the clouds are full of rain, they send it down on the earth; and if a tree comes down to the south, or the north, in whatever place it comes down, there it will be.

  • Isa 42:15
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    15 I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

  • Hag 1:10
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    10 For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.