who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Parallel translations
- KJV Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
- BSB He gives rain to the earth and sends water 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 didn’t leave himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you rains from the sky and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”
- Jer 5:24Neither do they say in their heart, ‘Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.’
- Ps 65:9–11You 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.
- Ps 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
- Jer 14:22Are 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.
- Job 28:26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
- Amos 4:7“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
- Jer 10:13when 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 the wind out of his treasuries.
- Job 38:26–28To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;
- Job 36:28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.
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