Job 37:13

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Whether for correction, or for His land, or for His mercy, He causes it to happen.

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  • 1 Kgs 18:45 : 45 In a short while, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. Ahab mounted his chariot and rode to Jezreel.
  • 1 Sam 12:18-19 : 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. 19 The people all said to Samuel, 'Pray to the LORD your God for your servants, so that we will not die, for we have added this evil to all our sins by asking for a king.'
  • Job 38:26-27 : 26 to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert, 27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?
  • Ezra 10:9 : 9 So, within three days, all the men of Judah and Benjamin had gathered in Jerusalem. It was the twentieth day of the ninth month, and all the people sat in the square before the house of God, trembling because of the matter and because of the heavy rain.
  • Job 36:31 : 31 For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.
  • Job 37:6 : 6 He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain showers, 'Be strong.'
  • Job 38:37-38 : 37 Who can count the clouds with wisdom or tilt the water jars of the heavens, 38 when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad, children of Zion; rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as in the past.
  • 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the sky to rest on them by day or the wild animals by night.
  • 2 Sam 21:14 : 14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela, in the tomb of Saul's father Kish. They did everything the king commanded. After that, God responded to the prayers for the land.
  • Exod 9:18-25 : 18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt since it became a nation. 19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die. 20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. 21 But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field. 22 Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.' 23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 Hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. 25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree.

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  • Job 37:11-12
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    11 Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.

    12 They turn and shift by His guidance, to carry out all that He commands across the surface of the earth.

  • Ps 135:6-7
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    6 The LORD does whatever pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all the depths.

    7 He brings up clouds from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from His storehouses.

  • 3 He unleashes it under the whole sky, and His lightning to the edges of the earth.

  • Job 37:14-15
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    14 Listen to this, Job; stand still and consider the wonders of God.

    15 Do you know how God orders them and how He causes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

  • 6 He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain showers, 'Be strong.'

  • Lam 3:32-33
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    32 For though He causes grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His steadfast love.

    33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

  • 15 "If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

  • Lam 3:37-38
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    37 Who can speak and have it come to pass, unless the Lord has decreed it?

    38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good come?

  • 27 For He draws up the drops of water; they distill as rain into His mist.

  • 13 At the sound of His thunder, water roars in the heavens. He causes clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of His storehouses.

  • Job 5:17-18
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    17 Behold, blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

    18 For He wounds, but He also binds up; He injures, but His hands also heal.

  • 16 When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth wind from His storehouses.

  • 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.

  • 22 From the north comes golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13 But he is unchangeable; who can turn him back? He does what he desires.

    14 He will complete what he has planned for me, and many such things are in his mind.

  • 12 For the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.

  • 18 He sends out His word and melts them; He makes His wind blow, and the waters flow.

  • 25 For He spoke and raised up a stormy wind, which lifted the waves of the sea.

  • 13 Who appointed Him over the earth? Or who gave Him charge over the whole world?

  • Job 38:25-27
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    25 Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

    26 to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert,

    27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?

  • 5 He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the Lord’s faithful love.

  • 10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

  • Job 36:31-32
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    31 For by these He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance.

    32 He covers His hands with the lightning and commands it to strike its target.

  • 11 For He repays a man for his deeds and brings upon him what his conduct deserves.

  • 24 Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—not in Your anger, or You will reduce me to nothing.

  • 10 If He passes by, imprisons, or calls an assembly, who can turn Him back?

  • 13 that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

  • 26 when He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

  • 1 The king's heart is like streams of water in the hand of the LORD; He directs it wherever He pleases.

  • 10 He opens their ears to instruction and tells them to turn away from iniquity.

  • 15 He sends His command to the earth; His word runs swiftly.

  • 12 If He snatches away, who can stop Him? Who can say to Him, 'What are You doing?

  • 3 Do not be quick to leave the king’s presence, and do not insist on an evil matter, for the king will do whatever he pleases.

  • 13 Let all this happen before the LORD, for he is coming—he is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.

  • 14 He causes the grass to grow for the livestock and plants for people to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth,

  • 9 For He spoke, and it came to be; He commanded, and it stood firm.

  • 11 He dams up streams to stop their flow, and brings to light what is hidden.

  • 3 And now the LORD has brought it about and done as He said. Because you sinned against the LORD and did not obey His voice, this has happened to you.

  • 26 His God instructs him and teaches him the proper way.

  • 29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, whose counsel is wonderful and whose wisdom is magnificent.