Job 28:25
Hebrew Text— Job 28:25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
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Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
When he utters his voice, the waters in the heavens roar, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings the wind out of his treasuries.
Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?
When he utters his voice, there is a roar of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and brings the wind out of his treasuries.
Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.
Yahweh said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface of the ground—man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds of the sky—for I am sorry that I have made them.”
God said to Noah, “I will bring an end to all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them and the earth.
I, even I, will bring the flood of waters on this earth, to destroy all flesh having the breath of life from under the sky. Everything that is in the earth will die.
All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.
lightning and hail, snow and clouds; stormy wind, fulfilling his word;
Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will send you away from off the surface of the earth. This year you will die, because you have spoken rebellion against Yahweh.’ ”
In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
He waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove; and she didn’t return to him any more.
Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.
“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
The sea was tossed by a great wind blowing.
He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
After the seven days, the floodwaters came on the earth.
The waters rose very high on the earth. All the high mountains that were under the whole sky were covered.
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
A wind from Yahweh went out and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, around the camp, and about two cubits above the surface of the earth.
for Yahweh your God among you is a jealous God, lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.
and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
After many days, Yahweh’s word came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab; and I will send rain on the earth.”
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
He removes the mountains, and they don’t know it, when he overturns them in his anger.
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?
Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?
Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
Who has worked and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I, Yahweh, the first, and with the last, I am he.”
God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it, says:
I have made the earth, and created man on it. I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens. I have commanded all their army.
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth; except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
But Yahweh sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.
He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
Therefore Yahweh says: “I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and a line shall be stretched out over Jerusalem.” ’
A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
where we found brothers, and were entreated to stay with them for seven days. So we came to Rome.
so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
by which means the world that existed then, being overflowed with water, perished.
These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.
No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
He waited yet another seven days; and again he sent the dove out of the ship.
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.