He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
Parallel translations
- WEB who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- KJV Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- NKJV He gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields.
- NASB “He gives rain on the earth, And sends water on the fields,
- NLT He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
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Quick answer
God gives rain on the earth and sends water on the fields. It celebrates his providential care that sustains all life.
Overview
Eliphaz points to rain and irrigation as evidence of God's good governance of creation. This providence is real and gracious, the Maker faithfully nourishing the ground. Jesus affirms the same truth, that the Father sends rain on the just and the unjust, revealing a generosity that flows even to enemies and grounds the call to imitate God's indiscriminate mercy.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Acts 14:17Yet 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.”
- Jer 5:24They 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.’
- Ps 65:9–11You 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.
- Ps 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Jer 14:22Can 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.
- Job 28:26when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
- 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.
- Jer 10:13When 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 38:26–28to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- Job 36:28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
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