Job 36:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

Job 36:27 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Job 38:25-28
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; …
Psalms 65:9-13
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. …
Psalms 148:8
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Job 5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God God Guidance Lord Majesty Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena Theology

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 24-33)

Elihu is here endeavouring to possess Job with great and high thoughts of God, and so to persuade him into a cheerful submission to his providence. I. He represents the work of God, in general, as illustrious and conspicuous, Job 36:24. His whole work is so. God does nothing mean. This is a good reason why we should acquiesce in all the operations of his providence concerning us in particular. His…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

27-28. The marvellous formation of rain (so Job 5:9, 10). maketh small--Rather, “He draweth (up) to Him, He attracts (from the earth below) the drops of water; they (the drops of water) pour down rain, (which is) His vapor.” “Vapor” is in apposition with “rain,” marking the way in which rain is formed; namely, from the vapor drawn up by God into the air and then condensed into drops, which fall (P…