Job 5:10

Translations

Modern

He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

Traditional

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

Literal

The One giving rain upon the face of the earth, and sending waters upon the face of the outside,

Latin

…qui dat pluviam super faciem terræ, et irrigat aquis universa;

Original

Hebrew

English

He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

Notes

Job 5:9–10

The region where Job lived relied on rain instead of human methods to water crops (see 36:27–28).

Job 5:9–16

Eliphaz praised God as the creator and and the one who sustains the universe who performs wonders (5:9–10). He also praised God as the righteous judge who humbles the powerful and honors poor people (5:11–16).

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Jeremiah 5:24
They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
Acts 14:17
Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
Psalm 147:8
…who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Jeremiah 14:22
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Psalm 65:9–11
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Amos 4:7
“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
Job 38:26–28
…to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
Jeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Job 28:26
…when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Job 36:28
…which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Glossary

Book of Job Miracle

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Benefits of Afflictions and Adversities: Consolation In Blessing: Temporal, from God Faith: Eliphaz, in the Overruling Providence of God, That Afflictions are for the Good of the Righteous God: Providence of God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Philosophy: Philosophical Inductions and Deductions Relating to God and his Providence Rain: God Gives

Job 5:10

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