Job 12:15
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 12 connects to 10 cross-references. Job sarcastically concedes his friends' wisdom before asserting that he has understanding equal to theirs. He surveys God's sovereign control over nations, counselors, priests, and kings, bringing them to ruin or exalting them at will. The chapter emphasizes divine freedom …
Other Translations
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Cross References
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art …
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh …
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over …
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven …
In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the …
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: …
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.