Proverbs 3:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 7:11 : 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;
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.
  • Job 36:27-28 : 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.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Job 38:26-28 : 26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; 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?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 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. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:
  • Gen 27:37-39 : 37 And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son? 38 And Esau said to his father, Is that the only blessing you have, my father? give a blessing to me, even me! And Esau was overcome with weeping. 39 Then Isaac his father made answer and said to him, Far from the fertile places of the earth, and far from the dew of heaven on high will your living-place be:
  • 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.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.
  • Gen 1:9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:19
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    19The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    78%

    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.

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

    30See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

    13At 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.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

    16At 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.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    76%

    27When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:

    28When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • Job 37:10-11
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    76%

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

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

  • Job 37:15-16
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    75%

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

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

  • Prov 2:5-6
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    75%

    5Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

    6For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

  • Ps 33:6-7
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    74%

    6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

    7He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • Job 38:28
    74%

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

  • Job 38:37
    73%

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

  • Ps 135:7
    73%

    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.

  • Job 26:8
    72%

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

  • Ps 104:13
    72%

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

  • Ps 18:15
    72%

    15Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

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

  • Job 26:10-13
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    72%

    10By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

    11The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

    12By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

    13By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.

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

  • Job 38:30
    71%

    30The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • Job 28:11
    71%

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

  • Job 37:6
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    6For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

  • Prov 3:21
    71%

    21My son, keep good sense, and do not let wise purpose go from your eyes.

  • 2 Pet 3:5
    71%

    5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

  • Job 38:16
    71%

    16Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Prov 24:4
    71%

    4And by knowledge its rooms are full of all dear and pleasing things.

  • Deut 32:2
    71%

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

  • Job 28:26-27
    2 verses
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    26When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

    27Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • Job 38:25
    70%

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

  • Ps 147:18
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    18At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

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    3The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

  • Amos 9:6
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    6It 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.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters: the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing stream.

  • Ps 78:15
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    15The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

  • Job 38:34
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    34Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?