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Job 36:27
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Elihu addresses Job within a discourse on divine sovereignty, using the natural movement of water to illustrate God’s unseen activity in creation.
The words — יְגָרַ֣ע (ye.ga.Ra') means "he draws up," and יָזֹ֖קּוּ (ya.Zo.ku) means "they refine," denoting the literal lifting of water droplets and their subsequent condensation into precipitation.
The thread — The atmospheric mechanism reappears in Psalms 147:8, which notes God covering the sky with clouds and preparing rain, while Job 5:9 and Job 38:25 cite His unsearchable works and His direction of flood channels and thunderbolt paths.
Why it lands — The verse demands acknowledgment that observable natural processes operate under direct divine agency, requiring the reader to accept God’s operational power without demanding prior visibility.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:
Cross-references
- Psalms 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Job 5:9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
- Job 38:25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- Psalms 65:9 You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
- Psalms 148:8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
- Genesis 2:5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
- Job 36:33 The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
- Job 38:34 Can you command the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?
- Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.