Job 12:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.”
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“If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 12:15 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 6:13Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- Genesis 6:17And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
- Genesis 7:11In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Genesis 8:1But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.
- Deuteronomy 11:17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- 1 Kings 8:35When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,
- 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- 1 Kings 17:7Some time later, however, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land.
- Job 12:10The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
- Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
- Jeremiah 14:22Can 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.
- Amos 5:8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
- Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and dries it up; He makes all the rivers run dry. Bashan and Carmel wither, and the flower of Lebanon wilts.
- Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
- James 5:17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
- Revelation 11:6These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.
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