Job 36:28

Bible in Basic English

Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
which the clouds pour outand shower abundantly on mankind.

Hebrew Names Version
Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

King James Version
Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

English Standard Version
which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.

New Century Version
The rain then pours down from the clouds, and showers fall on people.

New English Translation
which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

Amplified Bible
Which the clouds pour down, They drop abundantly upon mankind."

New American Standard Bible
Which clouds pour down; They drip upon mankind abundantly.

World English Bible
Which the skies pour down And drop on man abundantly.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Which raine the cloudes do droppe and let fall abundantly vpon man.

Legacy Standard Bible
Which the clouds pour down,They drip upon man abundantly.

Berean Standard Bible
which the clouds pour out and shower abundantly on mankind.

Contemporary English Version
and supplies us with rain.

Complete Jewish Bible
The clouds pour it down upon humankind in abundance.

Darby Translation
Which the skies pour down [and] drop upon man abundantly.

Easy-to-Read Version
So the clouds pour out the water, and the rain falls on many people.

George Lamsa Translation
And which the clouds pour down upon men, and cause them to be exceedingly glad;

Good News Translation
He lets the rain pour from the clouds in showers for all human beings.

Lexham English Bible
which the clouds pour down; they shower abundantly on human beings.

Literal Translation
which the clouds drip down, and drop upon men plentifully.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
together for to rayne, so that they poure downe and droppe vpon men.

American Standard Version
Which the skies pour down And drop upon man abundantly.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Which the skies pour down and drop upon the multitudes of men.

King James Version (1611)
Which the clouds doe drop, and distill vpon man aboundantly.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which rayne the cloudes do droppe, and let fall aboundantly vpon men.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things thy understanding is not astonished, neither is thy mind disturbed in thy body.

English Revised Version
Which the skies pour down and drop upon man abundantly.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whiche comen doun of the cloudis, that hilen alle thingis aboue.

Update Bible Version
Which the skies pour down and drop on man abundantly.

Webster's Bible Translation
Which the clouds do drop [and] distill upon man abundantly.

New King James Version
Which the clouds drop down And pour abundantly on man.

New Living Translation
The rain pours down from the clouds, and everyone benefits.

New Life Bible
which the clouds pour down. Much rain falls on man.

New Revised Standard
which the skies pour down and drop upon mortals abundantly.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With which the clouds flow down, They drop on man in abundance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

Revised Standard Version
which the skies pour down, and drop upon man abundantly.

Young's Literal Translation
Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

Contextual Overview

²⁴ See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs. ²⁵ All people are looking on it; man sees it from far. ²⁶ Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out. ²⁷ For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain, ²⁸ Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples. ²⁹ And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent? ³⁰ See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it. ³¹ For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure. ³² He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark. ³³ The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 37:11-13, Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:12, Proverbs 3:20

Reciprocal: Job 38:25 - General Jeremiah 5:24 - that giveth

Cross-References

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

Jeremiah 25:20
And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

Lamentations 4:21
Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Which the clouds do drop [and] distil upon man abundantly. Not upon the persons of men, which they take care as much as possible to shun and avoid, but upon the fields of men, and so for the profit and advantage of men; and this denotes both the gentle manner in which the clouds let down rain, and the liberal profusion of them; they let it down both in an easy and plentiful manner, and upon an abundance of men, or upon an abundance of fields and lands belonging to men; though sometimes rain falls upon the wilderness, where no man is, Job 38:26. The Targum is,

"at the prayer of a son of a great man,''

or at the prayer of a man that has great interest with God; that is famous for his faith and piety, as Elijah was, to whom perhaps the Targumist may have respect. The rain is an emblem of the word of God, the Gospel of Christ, which drops and distils on the souls of men like rain, and refreshes them, and makes them fruitful; and is dispensed by the ministers of it, who are compared to clouds, according to the measure of the gift of grace received by them, and that freely and fully as they have received it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Upon man abundantly - That is, upon many people. The clouds having received the ascending vapor, retain it, and pour it down copiously for the use of man. The arrangement, to the eye even of one who did not understand the scientific principles by which it is done, is beautiful and wonderful; the beauty and wonder are increased when the laws by which it is accomplished are understood. Elihu does not attempt to explain the mode by which this is done. The fact was probably all that was then understood, and that was sufficient for his purpose. The Septuagint has given a translation of this verse which cannot be well accounted for, and which is certainly very unlike the original. It is, “But when the clouds east a shade over the dumb creation, he impresseth a care on beasts, and they know the order for retiring to rest - κοίτης τάξιν koitēs taxin. At all these things is not their understanding confounded? And is not thy heart starting from thy body?”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 36:28. Which the clouds do drop — In proportion to the evaporation will be the clouds or masses of volatilized and suspended vapour; and in proportion to this will be the quantum of rain which in different forms will fall upon the earth.

There is a remarkable addition to this verse in the Septuagint. I shall insert the whole verse: Ῥυησονται παλαιωματα, εσκιασε δε νεφη επι αμυθητῳ βροτῳ· ὡραν εθετο κτηνεσιν, οιδασι δε κοιτης ταξιν· επι τουτοις πασιν ουκ εξισταται σου ἡ διανοια, ουδε διαλλασσεται σου ἡ καρδια απο σωματος; "The rains descend, and the clouds cover with their shadows multitudes of men: he hath appointed to animals to know the order of their dwellings. At the contemplation of these things is not thy mind transported, and thy heart ready to part from thy body?"