Proverbs 3:20

World English Bible (2000)

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the 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 the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
  • Job 36:27-28 : 27 For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor, 28 Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, 9 when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness, 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Job 38:26-28 : 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man; 27 to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth? 28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. 11 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
  • Gen 27:37-39 : 37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?" 38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
  • Gen 1:9 : 9 God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so.
  • Ps 104:8-9 : 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 3:19
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    19By wisdom Yahweh founded the earth. By understanding, he established the heavens.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    78%

    27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

    28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

    29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

    30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    76%

    12He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

    13when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    76%

    15He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

    16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Prov 8:27-29
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    76%

    27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,

    28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,

    29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

  • Job 37:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

    11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    75%

    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Prov 2:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

    5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

    6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Ps 33:6-7
    2 verses
    74%

    6By Yahweh's word, the heavens were made; all their army by the breath of his mouth.

    7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • Job 38:28
    74%

    28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

  • Job 38:37
    73%

    37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

  • Ps 135:7
    73%

    7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • Job 26:8
    72%

    8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

  • Ps 104:13
    72%

    13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

  • Ps 18:15
    72%

    15Then the channels of waters appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, Yahweh, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.

  • Job 12:15
    72%

    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 26:10-13
    4 verses
    72%

    10He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

    11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

    12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

    13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

  • Job 5:10
    71%

    10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

  • Job 38:30
    71%

    30The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

  • Job 28:11
    71%

    11He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

  • Job 37:6
    71%

    6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

  • Prov 3:21
    71%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • 2 Pet 3:5
    71%

    5For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • Job 38:16
    71%

    16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Prov 24:4
    71%

    4by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.

  • Deut 32:2
    71%

    2My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

  • Job 28:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

    27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.

  • Job 38:25
    70%

    25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

  • Ps 147:18
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    18He sends out his word, and melts them. He causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.

  • Ps 104:3
    70%

    3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

  • Amos 9:6
    70%

    6It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

  • Prov 18:4
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    4The words of a man's mouth are like deep waters. The fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

  • Ps 78:15
    70%

    15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

  • Job 38:34
    70%

    34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?