Job 38:27

²⁷ to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

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Job 36:27–29

²⁷ For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist, ²⁸ which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind. ²⁹ Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

2 Esdras 11:45–46

⁴⁵ Therefore appear no more, you eagle, nor your horrible wings, nor your evil little wings, nor your cruel heads, nor your hurtful talons, nor all your worthless body, (WEB) ⁴⁶ that all the earth may be refreshed and relieved, being delivered from your violence, and that… (WEB)

Job 5:9–11

⁹ the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. ¹⁰ He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields. ¹¹ He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

Job 38:12–14

¹² In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, ¹³ that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it? ¹⁴ The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.

Psalms 73:9–11

⁹ They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth. ¹⁰ So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance. ¹¹ The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

Sirach 39:21–23

²¹ No one can say, “What is this?” “Why is that?” for all things are created for their own uses. (WEB) ²² His blessing covered the dry land as a river and saturated it as a flood. (WEB) ²³ As he has made the waters salty, so the heathen will inherit his wrath. (WEB)

Wisdom of Solomon 11:6–8

⁶ When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain, (WEB) ⁷ to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope, (WEB) ⁸ having shown by the thirst which they had suffered how you punished the adver… (WEB)

Job 33:29–31

²⁹ Behold, all these things God does to a man, two or even three times, ³⁰ to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life. ³¹ Pay attention, Job, and listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

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