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Job 37:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He causeth it to come, whether βfor correctionf, or for his landg, or for mercyh.

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a rod.

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1 Sam. 12:18• ¹⁸So Samuel called unto Jehovah, and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel. (1 Sam. 12:18)

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Ezra 10:9• ⁹Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open space of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the pouring rain. (Ezra 10:9)

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1 Kings 18:45• ⁴⁵And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. (1 Kings 18:45)

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Joel 2:23• ²³Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (Joel 2:23)

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Job 37:6• ⁶For to the snow he saith, Fall to the earth,{HR}And to the small rain, and to the rains of his strength. (Job 37:6)

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Job 36:31• ³¹For by them he judgeth the nations;{HR}He giveth, food in abundance. (Job 36:31)

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Job 38:37‑38• ³⁷Who regulateth the clouds by wisdom,{HR}Or who inclineth the pitchers of heaven,
³⁸When the dust is poured into hardness,{HR}And the clods are compacted together? (Job 38:37‑38)

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Ex. 9:18‑25• ¹⁸Behold, tomorrow about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath not been in Egypt since its foundation until now.
¹⁹And now send, and secure thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field: all the men and the cattle that are found in the field, and are not brought home—on them the hail shall come down, and they shall die.
²⁰He that feared the word of Jehovah among the bondmen of Pharaoh made his bondmen and his cattle flee into the houses.
²¹But he that did not regard the word of Jehovah left his bondmen and his cattle in the field.
²²And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward the heavens, that there may be hail throughout the land of Egypt, upon men, and upon cattle, and upon every herb of the field in the land of Egypt.
²³And Moses stretched out his staff toward the heavens, and Jehovah gave thunder and hail; and the fire ran along the ground; and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.
²⁴And there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there had been none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
²⁵And the hail smote throughout the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both men and cattle; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and broke every tree of the field. (Ex. 9:18‑25)

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1 Sam. 12:18‑19• ¹⁸So Samuel called unto Jehovah, and Jehovah sent thunder and rain that day. And all the people greatly feared Jehovah and Samuel.
¹⁹And all the people said to Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto Jehovah thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. (1 Sam. 12:18‑19)

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Ezra 10:9• ⁹Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together at Jerusalem within three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month; and all the people sat in the open space of the house of God, trembling because of the matter, and because of the pouring rain. (Ezra 10:9)

correction.

Heb. a rod.

for his.

Job 38:26‑27• ²⁶To cause it to rain on the land [where is] no man.{HR}The wilderness wherein [is] no man,
²⁷To satisfy the desolate and waste,{HR}And to make the place of the green herb to sprout? (Job 38:26‑27)

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2 Sam. 21:10,14• ¹⁰And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
¹⁴And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land. (2 Sam. 21:10,14)

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1 Kings 18:45• ⁴⁵And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. (1 Kings 18:45)

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Joel 2:23• ²³Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (Joel 2:23)

• Sometimes it is as an “overflowing scourge,” sometimes, “Thou visitest the earth and waterest it; Thou greatly enrichest it” (Ps. 65:9), but always it is God whose actions, plans and purposes are before the eye of faith. (“Job 32-37” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

W. Kelly Translation

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Whether for a scourge, or for his earth (or land),{HR}Or for mercy, he causeth it to come.