Job 37:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job 37:6 —

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Job 36:27
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Job 38:22
Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
Psalms 147:16-18
He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. …
Ezekiel 13:13
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
Ezra 10:13
But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-13)

The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and…

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

(vv. 6)

6. Be--more forcible than “fall,” as Umbreit translates Ge 1:3. to the small rain, &c.--He saith, Be on the earth. The shower increasing from “small” to “great,” is expressed by the plural “showers” (Margin), following the singular “shower.” Winter rain (So 2:11).