Job 38:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 104:14 : 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;
  • Ps 107:35 : 35 He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

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  • Job 38:24-26
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    24Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.

    10You 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.

  • 10For 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;

  • Ps 104:13-14
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    13He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.

    14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • 1Make 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.

  • Job 36:27-28
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    27For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

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

  • 18I 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.

  • 23And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.

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

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

  • Gen 2:5-6
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    5In 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.

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

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

  • 9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

  • 26And 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.

  • 22Are 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.

  • 11For as the earth puts out buds, and as the garden gives growth to the seeds which are planted in it, so the Lord will make righteousness and praise to be flowering before all the nations.

  • 7And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.

  • Job 8:11-12
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    11Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • 4Those 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.

  • 7He 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.

  • 15And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • 37And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

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

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

  • 11And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring.

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

  • 33He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • 3For I will send water on the land needing it, and streams on the dry earth: I will let my spirit come down on your seed, and my blessing on your offspring.

  • 4Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;

  • 17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

  • 27This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • 1The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.

  • 34And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.

  • 4He 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.

  • 17For 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.

  • 38When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

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

  • 13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • 11In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.

  • 10And if it is planted will it do well? will it not become quite dry at the touch of the east wind, drying up in the bed where it was planted?

  • 25Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?