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

    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;

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

  • 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.

  • Ps 65:9-10
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    9 You 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.

    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.

  • 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;

  • Ps 104:13-14
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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.

    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;

  • 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.

  • Job 36:27-28
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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.

  • 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.

  • 23 And 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.

  • 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:

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 11 For 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.

  • 7 And 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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    11 Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water?

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 11 And 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.

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

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

  • 3 For 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.

  • 4 Then 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;

  • 17 The 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.

  • 27 This 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • 11 In 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.

  • 10 And 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?

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