Job 36:28
New International Version
the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.

New Living Translation
The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits.

English Standard Version
which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.

Berean Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

King James Bible
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

New King James Version
Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.

New American Standard Bible
Which clouds pour down; They drip upon mankind abundantly.

NASB 1995
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

NASB 1977
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

Legacy Standard Bible
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

Amplified Bible
Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind.”

Christian Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

American Standard Version
Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
That pour down the sky in time, and clouds sprinkle on the children of men, and they will rejoice greatly

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

Contemporary English Version
and supplies us with rain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

English Revised Version
Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
which then drips from the clouds. It pours down on many people.

Good News Translation
He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.

International Standard Version
When the clouds pour down; they drop their rain on all of humanity.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Which the skies pour down And drop upon the multitudes of men.

Literal Standard Version
Which clouds drop, | They distill on man abundantly.

Majority Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

New American Bible
Till the clouds flow with them and they rain down on all humankind.

NET Bible
which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

New Revised Standard Version
which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.

New Heart English Bible
Which the skies pour down and which drop on humankind abundantly.

Webster's Bible Translation
Which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly.

World English Bible
which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

Young's Literal Translation
Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Elihu Declares God's Justice and Power
27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, 28which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind. 29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?…

Cross References
Job 36:27
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

Job 36:29
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

Job 38:28
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:34
Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

Psalm 65:11
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.

Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.


Treasury of Scripture

Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.

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…

Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

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Job 36
1. Elihu shows how God is just in his ways
16. How Job's sins hinder God's blessings
24. God's works are to be magnified














Verse 28. - Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. All is done for man, for his benefit and advantage.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
which
אֲשֶֽׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the clouds
שְׁחָקִ֑ים (šə·ḥā·qîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7834: A powder, a thin vapor, the firmament

pour out
יִזְּל֥וּ (yiz·zə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5140: To flow, trickle, drop, distill

and shower
יִ֝רְעֲפ֗וּ (yir·‘ă·p̄ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7491: To trickle, drip

abundantly
רָֽב׃ (rāḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

on
עֲלֵ֤י ׀ (‘ă·lê)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

mankind.
אָדָ֬ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 120: Ruddy, a human being


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