Job 37:6 BSB — MannaFest

Job 37:6

For He says to the snow, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the gentle rain, ‘Pour out a mighty downpour.’

BSB

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ASV

For he saith to the snow, Fall thou on the earth; Likewise to the shower of rain, And to the showers of his mighty rain.

KJV

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXVII (604)

Who ordereth the snow to descend on the earth, and the rains of the winter, and the showers of His strength. Because the Psalmist says, Thou shalt wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow; [Ps. 51, 7] what do we understand by snow in this place, but the hearts of the Saints made white by the light of righteousness? But waters are taken up, and congealed above, in order to become snow. But when this snow descends to the earth, it is changed again into liquid waters.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For he saith to the snow, be thou on the earth,.... In the original it is, be thou earth: hence one of the Rabbins formed a notion, that the earth was created from snow under the throne of glory, which is justly censured by Maimonides (f); for there is a defect of the letter ב, as in 2Ch 34:30; as Aben Ezra observes; and therefore rightly supplied by us, on the earth. This is one of the great and incomprehensible things of God.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Saying and doing are not two things with God, though they are with us. When he speaks the word the small rain distils and the great rain pours down as he pleases-- the winter-rain (so the LXX.), for in those countries, when the winter was past, the rain was over and gone, Cant. ii.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Be--more forcible than "fall," as UMBREIT translates Ge 1:3. to the small rain, &c.--He saith, Be on the earth. The shower increasing from "small" to "great," is expressed by the plural "showers" (Margin), following the singular "shower." Winter rain (So 2:11).

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
לַשֶּׁ֨לַג׀	la.She.lag	to the snow	H7950 →
יֹאמַ֗ר	yo.Mar	he says	H559 →
הֱוֵ֫א	he.Ve'	fall	H1933 →
אָ֥רֶץ	'A.retz	earth	H776 →
וְגֶ֥שֶׁם	ve.Ge.shem	and [the] shower of	H1653 →
מָטָ֑ר	ma.Tar	rain	H4306 →
וְ֝גֶ֗שֶׁם	ve.Ge.shem	and [the] shower of	H1653 →
מִטְר֥וֹת	mit.Rot	[the] rains of	H4306 →
עֻזּֽוֹ׃	u.Zo	strength his	H5797 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
leads to
- Psalms 148:8
  lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 30:30
  And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Through
Amos 9:6
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth. He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth. The LORD is…
leads to
- Amos 5:8
  He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD…
- Psalms 104:3
  laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.
- Amos 4:13
  For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God…
- Psalms 104:13
  He waters the mountains from His chambers; the earth is satisfied by the fruit of His works.
Through
Job 38:22
Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
leads to
- Psalms 135:7
  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.
- Psalms 33:7
  He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job