Proverbs 3:20

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By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, so that the clouds drip down dew.

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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– on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.
  • Job 36:27-28 : 27 He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist, 28 which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 “Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb, 9 when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Job 38:26-28 : 26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? 28 Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
  • 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. 11 You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake. 12 The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
  • Gen 27:37-39 : 37 Isaac replied to Esau,“Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?” 38 Esau said to his father,“Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly. 39 So his father Isaac said to him,“See here, your home will be by the richness of the earth, and by the dew of the sky above.
  • 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.
  • Gen 1:9 : 9 God said,“Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:19
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    19By wisdom the LORD laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    78%

    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?

    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    76%

    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.

  • 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.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    76%

    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    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 37:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    75%

    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?

  • Prov 2:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.

    6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Ps 33:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6By the LORD’s decree the heavens were made; and by the breath of his mouth all the starry hosts.

    7He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.

  • Job 38:28
    74%

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

  • Job 38:37
    73%

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

  • Ps 135:7
    73%

    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 26:8
    72%

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

  • Ps 104:13
    72%

    13He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.

  • Ps 18:15
    72%

    15The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by your battle cry, LORD, by the powerful breath from your nose.

  • Job 12:15
    72%

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

  • Job 26:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

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

    11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

    12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

    13By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.

  • Job 5:10
    71%

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

  • Job 38:30
    71%

    30when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

  • Job 28:11
    71%

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

  • Job 37:6
    71%

    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • Prov 3:21
    71%

    21My child, do not let them escape from your sight; safeguard sound wisdom and discretion.

  • 2 Pet 3:5
    71%

    5For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16The depths of the sea were exposed; the inner regions of the world were uncovered by the LORD’s battle cry, by the powerful breath from his nose.

  • Job 38:16
    71%

    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Prov 24:4
    71%

    4by knowledge its rooms are filled with all kinds of precious and pleasing treasures.

  • Deut 32:2
    71%

    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.

  • Job 28:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

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

    27then he looked at wisdom and assessed its value; he established it and examined it closely.

  • Job 38:25
    70%

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

  • Ps 147:18
    70%

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

  • Ps 104:3
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    3and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.

  • Amos 9:6
    70%

    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.

  • Prov 18:4
    70%

    4The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Ps 78:15
    70%

    15He broke open rocks in the wilderness, and gave them enough water to fill the depths of the sea.

  • Job 38:34
    70%

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