Job 12:15 “If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, the…”

Job 12:15

If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

World English Bible

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

American Standard Version

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.

Darby Translation

Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

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Cross references

“Behold”

1 Kings 17:1 Job 12:10 Jeremiah 14:22 Nahum 1:4 Luke 4:25 Revelation 11:6

1 Kings 17:1 · BSB

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

Job 12:10 · BSB

The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.

Jeremiah 14:22 · BSB

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.

Nahum 1:4 · BSB

He 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 4:25 · BSB

But 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.

Revelation 11:6 · BSB

These 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.

“he sendeth”

Amos 5:8 Genesis 6:13 Genesis 6:17 Psalm 104:7–9 Genesis 7:11 Genesis 7:23

Amos 5:8 · BSB

He 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—

Genesis 6:13 · BSB

Then 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 6:17 · BSB

And 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.

Psalm 104:7–9 · BSB

At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—

Genesis 7:11 · BSB

In 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 7:23 · BSB

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Also

Deuteronomy 11:17

Deuteronomy 11:17 · BSB

or 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

16True wisdom and power belong to Him. The deceived and the deceiver are His.

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