Job 36:28
 Job 36:28 
New International Version (©2011)
the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits.

English Standard Version (©2001)
which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When the clouds pour down; they drop their rain on all of humanity.

NET Bible (©2006)
which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
which then drips from the clouds. It pours down on many people.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Which the clouds do drop and pour upon man abundantly.

American King James Version
Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

36:24-33 Elihu endeavours to fill Job with high thought of God, and so to persuade him into cheerful submission to his providence. Man may see God's works, and is capable of discerning his hand in them, which the beasts are not, therefore they ought to give him the glory. But while the worker of iniquity ought to tremble, the true believer should rejoice. Children should hear with pleasure their Father's voice, even when he speaks in terror to his enemies. There is no light but there may be a cloud to intercept it. The light of the favour of God, the light of his countenance, the most blessed light of all, even that light has many a cloud. The clouds of our sins cause the Lord to his face, and hinder the light of his loving-kindness from shining on our souls.


Pulpit Commentary

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


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly. Not upon the persons of men, which they take care as much as possible to shun and avoid, but upon the fields of men, and so for the profit and advantage of men; and this denotes both the gentle manner in which the clouds let down rain, and the liberal profusion of them; they let it down both in an easy and plentiful manner, and upon an abundance of men, or upon an abundance of fields and lands belonging to men; though sometimes rain falls upon the wilderness, where no man is, Job 38:26. The Targum is,

"at the prayer of a son of a great man,''

or at the prayer of a man that has great interest with God; that is famous for his faith and piety, as Elijah was, to whom perhaps the Targumist may have respect. The rain is an emblem of the word of God, the Gospel of Christ, which drops and distils on the souls of men like rain, and refreshes them, and makes them fruitful; and is dispensed by the ministers of it, who are compared to clouds, according to the measure of the gift of grace received by them, and that freely and fully as they have received it.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

28. abundantly—literally, "upon many men."


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Elihu Shows God's Justice and Power
27For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof: 28Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly. 29Also can any understand the spreading of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? …

Job 36:27 "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;
Job 36:29 Who can understand how he spreads out the clouds, how he thunders from his pavilion?
Job 38:28 Does the rain have a father? Who fathers the drops of dew?
Job 38:34 "Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?
Psalm 65:11 You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.
Proverbs 3:20 by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew.