Job 37:12

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 148:8 : 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
  • Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.
  • Rev 11:6 : 6 These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way. 10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.
  • Ps 104:24 : 24 How many living things you have made, O LORD! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.

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  • Job 37:13
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    13Whether it is for punishment, or for his land, or for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

  • Job 37:3
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    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

  • Job 37:11
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    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

  • Job 12:15-17
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    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

    16With him are strength and prudence; both the one who goes astray and the one who misleads are his.

    17He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

  • Ps 135:6-7
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    6He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths.

    7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Job 23:13-14
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    13But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

    14For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

  • Job 37:6-7
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    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

    7He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work.

  • Job 36:27
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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

  • Job 36:30-32
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    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

    31It is by these that he judges the nations and supplies food in abundance.

    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12The LORD is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.

    13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Prov 21:1
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    1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.

  • Dan 4:35
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    35All the inhabitants of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who inhabit the earth. No one slaps his hand and says to him,‘What have you done?’

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.

    16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Ps 147:15
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    15He sends his command through the earth; swiftly his order reaches its destination.

  • Job 12:24
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    24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

  • Ps 33:9
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    9For he spoke, and it came into existence, he issued the decree, and it stood firm.

  • Job 38:13
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    13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Ps 104:9
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    9You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

  • Eccl 1:6
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    6The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.

  • Job 38:33
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

  • Job 34:13
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    13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

    10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

  • Prov 8:29
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    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 11:10
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    10If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

  • Job 12:19
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    19He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the potentates.

  • Job 9:12
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    12If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him,‘What are you doing?’

  • Ps 147:18
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    18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.

  • Ps 111:7
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    7His acts are characterized by faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable.

  • Job 37:15
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

  • Job 36:10
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    10And he reveals this for correction, and says that they must turn from evil.

  • Job 22:14
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    14Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

  • Ps 107:25
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    25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • Lam 3:37
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    37מ(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?

  • Job 38:24
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • Eccl 8:3
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    3Do not rush out of the king’s presence in haste– do not delay when the matter is unpleasant, for he can do whatever he pleases.

  • Job 28:25-26
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    25When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,

    26when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

  • Ps 148:8
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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Job 28:11
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    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.