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Job 5:10
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Eliphaz addresses Job in a discourse outlining God’s ongoing governance over creation and human circumstances. The verse sits between descriptions of divine wonders and the reversal of human fortune.
The words — The participle הַנּוֹתֵן (ha./no.Ten) identifies the active giver of rain (מָטָר, Ma.tor) upon the surface of the earth (פְּנֵי אָרֶץ, pe.nei-'A.retz), while שֹׁלֵחַ (Sho.le.ach) denotes the one who sends water (מַיִם, Ma.yim) across the fields.
The thread — This motif of divine provision through rain and water appears in Jeremiah 5:24, Acts 14:17, and Psalm 65:9, where God’s control over agricultural cycles is explicitly tied to His sustaining power.
Why it lands — The text records God’s direct, physical action in sustaining the earth before any theological inference about covenant or mercy is drawn. It demands recognition of creation’s dependence on unmerited, ongoing divine provision.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 5:24 They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.”
- 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 147:8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- 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.
- Job 28:26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
- Job 38:26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
- Jeremiah 10:13 When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
- Amos 4:7 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- Job 36:28 which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.