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Job 36:28

Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Judges;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Clouds;   Rain;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Cloud, Cloud of the Lord;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Heaven;   Holman Bible Dictionary - God;   Job, the Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Distil, to;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sky;   World (Cosmological);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cloud;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
which the clouds pour outand shower abundantly on mankind.
Hebrew Names Version
Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
King James Version
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.
English Standard Version
which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.
New Century Version
The rain then pours down from the clouds, and showers fall on people.
New English Translation
which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.
New American Standard Bible
Which clouds pour down; They drip upon mankind abundantly.
World English Bible
Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.
Legacy Standard Bible
Which the clouds pour down,They drip upon man abundantly.
Berean Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.
Contemporary English Version
and supplies us with rain.
Complete Jewish Bible
The clouds pour it down upon humankind in abundance.
Darby Translation
Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the clouds pour out the water, and the rain falls on many people.
George Lamsa Translation
And which the clouds pour down upon men, and cause them to be exceedingly glad;
Good News Translation
He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.
Lexham English Bible
which the clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.
Literal Translation
which the clouds drip down, and drop upon men plentifully.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
together for to rayne, so that they poure downe and droppe vpon men.
American Standard Version
Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.
Bible in Basic English
Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.
King James Version (1611)
Which the clouds doe drop, and distill vpon man aboundantly.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which rayne the cloudes do droppe, and let fall aboundantly vpon men.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in thy body.
English Revised Version
Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche comen doun of the cloudis, that hilen alle thingis aboue.
Update Bible Version
Which the skies pour down and drop on man abundantly.
Webster's Bible Translation
Which the clouds do drop [and] distill upon man abundantly.
New King James Version
Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.
New Living Translation
The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits.
New Life Bible
which the clouds pour down. Much rain falls on man.
New Revised Standard
which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.
Revised Standard Version
which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.
Young's Literal Translation
Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

Contextual Overview

24"Remember that you should magnify God's work, Of which men have sung. 25"All men have seen God's work; Man looks at it from a distance. 26"Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable. 27"For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist, 28Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind."29"Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds Or the thundering of His pavilion? 30"Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds], And He covers the depths of the sea. 31"For by these [mighty acts] He judges the peoples; He gives food in abundance. 32"He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark. 33"His thundering voice declares [awesomely] His presence; The cattle also are told of His coming storm.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 37:11-13, Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:12, Proverbs 3:20

Reciprocal: Job 38:25 - General Jeremiah 5:24 - that giveth

Cross-References

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God [with reverence] and abstained from and turned away from evil [because he honored God].
Jeremiah 25:20
and all the foreign (mixed) population, all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines (and [their cities of] Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod);
Lamentations 4:21
Rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, Who lives in the land of Uz. But the cup [of the wine of God's wrath] will pass to you as well; You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. Not upon the persons of men, which they take care as much as possible to shun and avoid, but upon the fields of men, and so for the profit and advantage of men; and this denotes both the gentle manner in which the clouds let down rain, and the liberal profusion of them; they let it down both in an easy and plentiful manner, and upon an abundance of men, or upon an abundance of fields and lands belonging to men; though sometimes rain falls upon the wilderness, where no man is, Job 38:26. The Targum is,

"at the prayer of a son of a great man,''

or at the prayer of a man that has great interest with God; that is famous for his faith and piety, as Elijah was, to whom perhaps the Targumist may have respect. The rain is an emblem of the word of God, the Gospel of Christ, which drops and distils on the souls of men like rain, and refreshes them, and makes them fruitful; and is dispensed by the ministers of it, who are compared to clouds, according to the measure of the gift of grace received by them, and that freely and fully as they have received it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon man abundantly - That is, upon many people. The clouds having received the ascending vapor, retain it, and pour it down copiously for the use of man. The arrangement, to the eye even of one who did not understand the scientific principles by which it is done, is beautiful and wonderful; the beauty and wonder are increased when the laws by which it is accomplished are understood. Elihu does not attempt to explain the mode by which this is done. The fact was probably all that was then understood, and that was sufficient for his purpose. The Septuagint has given a translation of this verse which cannot be well accounted for, and which is certainly very unlike the original. It is, “But when the clouds east a shade over the dumb creation, he impresseth a care on beasts, and they know the order for retiring to rest - κοίτης τάξιν koitēs taxin. At all these things is not their understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from thy body?”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 36:28. Which the clouds do drop — In proportion to the evaporation will be the clouds or masses of volatilized and suspended vapour; and in proportion to this will be the quantum of rain which in different forms will fall upon the earth.

There is a remarkable addition to this verse in the Septuagint. I shall insert the whole verse: Ῥυησονται παλαιωματα, εσκιασε δε νεφη επι αμυθητῳ βροτῳ· ὡραν εθετο κτηνεσιν, οιδασι δε κοιτης ταξιν· επι τουτοις πασιν ουκ εξισταται σου ἡ διανοια, ουδε διαλλασσεται σου ἡ καρδια απο σωματος; "The rains descend, and the clouds cover with their shadows multitudes of men: he hath appointed to animals to know the order of their dwellings. At the contemplation of these things is not thy mind transported, and thy heart ready to part from thy body?"


 
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