Job 36:27 "He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;

English Standard Version
For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,

New American Standard Bible
"For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For He makes waterdrops evaporate; they distill the rain into its mist,

International Standard Version
He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.

American Standard Version
For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

Douay-Rheims Bible
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods :

Darby Bible Translation
For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

Young's Literal Translation
When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Cross References

Job 5:10
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:

Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Job 36:28
Which the clouds do drop and distil on man abundantly.

Job 37:6
For he said to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job 37:11
Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:

Job 38:26
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Job 38:28
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?

Job 38:34
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

Psalm 147:8
Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

Jeremiah 10:13
When he utters his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning with rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasures.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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 (Ps 147:8). The suspension of such a mass of water, and its descent not in a deluge, but in drops of vapory rain, are the marvel. The selection of this particular illustration of God's greatness forms a fit prelude to the storm in which God appears (Job 40:1).