Job 36:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁸Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

Job 36:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Job 37:11-13
Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: …
Genesis 7:11-12
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. …

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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. 28)

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…