Job 36:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:20 : 20 By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, so that the clouds drip down dew.
  • Gen 7:11-12 : 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened. 12 And the rain fell on the earth forty days and forty nights.
  • Job 37:11-13 : 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world. 13 Whether it is for punishment, or for his land, or for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

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