Job 36:27
What does Job 36:27 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 36:27 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
KJV
King James Version · 1611For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 38:34
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?
- Isaiah 5:6
and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
- Psalms 65:9
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.
- Job 5:9
Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
- Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
- Genesis 2:5
And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
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