Job 37:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:27 : 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,
  • Job 38:22 : 22 Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,
  • Ps 147:16-18 : 16 He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes. 17 He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends? 18 He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
  • Prov 28:3 : 3 A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.
  • Ezek 13:11 : 11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones will fall and a violent wind will break out.
  • Ezek 13:13 : 13 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.
  • Matt 7:25-27 : 25 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because its foundation had been laid on rock. 26 Everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
  • Gen 7:10-12 : 10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. 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.
  • Ezra 10:9 : 9 All the men of Judah and Benjamin were gathered in Jerusalem within the three days.(It was in the ninth month, on the twentieth day of that month.) All the people sat in the square at the temple of God, trembling because of this matter and because of the rains.
  • Ezra 10:13 : 13 However, the people are numerous and it is the rainy season. We are unable to stand here outside. Furthermore, this business cannot be resolved in a day or two, for we have sinned greatly in this matter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 36:27-29
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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

    29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

  • Job 37:3-5
    3 verses
    81%

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

    4After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

    5God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

  • Ps 148:8
    79%

    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

  • Jer 51:16
    79%

    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.

  • Job 37:10-18
    9 verses
    79%

    10The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid.

    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12The 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.

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

    14“Pay attention to this, Job! Stand still and consider the wonders God works.

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

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

    17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,

    18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • Ps 147:15-18
    4 verses
    78%

    15He sends his command through the earth; swiftly his order reaches its destination.

    16He sends the snow that is white like wool; he spreads the frost that is white like ashes.

    17He throws his hailstones like crumbs. Who can withstand the cold wind he sends?

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

  • Job 28:26
    78%

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

  • Jer 10:13
    77%

    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.

  • Job 38:25-26
    2 verses
    77%

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

  • Ps 135:7
    76%

    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 38:22
    76%

    22Have you entered the storehouse of the snow, or seen the armory of the hail,

  • Job 37:7
    76%

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

  • Isa 55:10
    76%

    10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • Job 37:22
    76%

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

  • Job 38:34-35
    2 verses
    76%

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

  • Job 36:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

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

    33His thunder announces the coming storm, the cattle also, concerning the storm’s approach.

  • Job 5:10
    75%

    10he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

  • Ps 147:8
    75%

    8He covers the sky with clouds, provides the earth with rain, and causes grass to grow on the hillsides.

  • Job 26:8
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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

  • Ps 72:6
    74%

    6He will descend like rain on the mown grass, like showers that drench the earth.

  • Amos 9:6
    73%

    6He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The LORD is his name.

  • Job 38:28
    73%

    28Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

  • Zech 10:1
    73%

    1The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

  • Job 12:15
    73%

    15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • Job 38:37
    73%

    37Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

  • Ps 77:17-18
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    73%

    17The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

    18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

  • Job 26:14
    73%

    14Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • Ps 18:12
    73%

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

  • Ps 107:25
    72%

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

  • Deut 32:2
    72%

    2My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.

  • Jer 14:22
    72%

    22Do 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.”