the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Job 12:15
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When he withholds water, everything dries up,and when he releases it, it destroys the land.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the eretz.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
If God holds back the waters, there is no rain; if he lets the waters go, they flood the land.
If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.
"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Beholde, he withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: but when he sendeth them out, they destroy the earth.
Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;And He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
God can hold back the rain or send a flood,
When he holds back water, there is drought; when he sends it out, it overruns the land.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
If he holds back the rain, the earth will dry up. If he lets the rain loose, it will flood the land.
If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he releases them they ruin the land.
Drought comes when God withholds rain; floods come when he turns water loose.
Look, if he withholds the water, then they dry up; and if he sends them out, then they overwhelm the land.
Behold, He holds back the waters, and they dry up; and He sends them out, and they overflow the earth.
Beholde, yf he witholde the waters, they drye vp: Yf he let the go, they destroye the earth.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Behold, He withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; also He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Behold, hee withholdeth the waters, and they drie vp: also hee sendeth them out, and they ouerturne the earth.
Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.
If he should withhold the water, he will dry the earth: and if he should let it loose, he overthrows and destroys it.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Look, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
If He withholds the waters, they dry up; If He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth.
If he holds back the rain, the earth becomes a desert. If he releases the waters, they flood the earth.
See, He stops the waters and they dry up. He sends them out, and they cover the earth.
If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:
If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.
If he withholds the waters, they dry up; if he sends them out, they overwhelm the land.
Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
"Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Behold: Job 12:10, Genesis 8:1, Genesis 8:2, 1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 8:36, 1 Kings 17:1, Jeremiah 14:22, Nahum 1:4, Luke 4:25, James 5:17, James 5:18, Revelation 11:6
he sendeth: Genesis 6:13, Genesis 6:17, Genesis 7:11, Genesis 7:23, Psalms 104:7-9, Amos 5:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 7:19 - and all the high hills 2 Peter 3:6 - General
Cross-References
and Y schal make thee in to a greet folk, and Y schal blisse thee, and Y schal magnyfie thi name, and thou schalt be blessid;
And so Abram yede out, as the Lord comaundide hym, and Loth yede with hym. Abram was of `thre scoor yeer and fiftene whanne he yede out of Aran.
And he took Saray, his wijf, and Loth, the sone of his brother, and al the substaunce which thei hadden in possessioun, and the men whiche thei hadden bigete in Aran; and thei yeden out that thei `schulen go in to the loond of Chanaan. And whanne they camen in to it,
Forsothe thei vsiden wel Abram for hir; and scheep, and oxun, and assis, and seruauntis, and seruauntessis, and sche assis, and camels weren to hym.
and he seide of Sare, his wijf, Sche is my sistir. Therfor Abymalec, kyng of Gerare, sente, and took hir.
And Farao was wrooth ayens hem, for the toon was `souereyn to boteleris, the tother was `souereyn to bakeris.
Aftir twei yeer Farao seiy a dreem; he gesside that he stood on a flood,
Lo! forsothe the douytir of Farao cam doun to be waischun in the flood, and hir damysels walkiden bi the brenke of the flood. And whanne sche hadde seyn a leep in the `place of spier, sche sente oon of hir seruauntessis,
And Farao herde this word, and souyte to sle Moyses, which fledde fro his siyt, and dwellide in the lond of Madian, and sat bisidis a pit.
Therfor the rewme was confermyd in to the hondis of Salomon; and bi affynyte, `ether aliaunce, he was ioyned to Pharao, kyng of Egipt; for he took the douyter of Farao, and brouyte in to the citee of Dauid, til he `fillide bildynge his hows, and the hows of the Lord, and the wal of Jerusalem bi cumpas.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up,.... Or "lays a restraint in" or "on the waters" s; either in the ocean, as he did at the creation, when he gathered the waters that were upon the face of the earth into one place, and restrained them there, even in the decreed place he broke up for them, called the sea, and set bars and doors to keep them within bounds, whereby the places they left became dry and the dry land appeared called earth; and so at the time of the flood, when the waters which covered the earth and drowned the world were called off again, the face of it was dry, and so it remains, the waters of the great ocean being restrained from overflowing it; and also when God rebukes the see, and smites the waves of it, or withholds the ebbing and flowing of the tides brooks and rivers of water dry up; see Nahum 1:4; or else this may be understood of God's withholding and restraining the waters in the clouds, and not suffering them to let down rain on the earth; when not only brooks dry up, as the brook Cherith did, where Elijah abode for sometime, but the fruits of the earth, trees, plants, and herbs dry up, wither and die; see
1 Kings 17:7; and this is an emblem in a spiritual sense of God's withholding the word and ordinances, the waters of the sanctuary the means of grace, and of fruitfulness; which when he does, the consequence of it is barrenness and unfruitfulness in kingdoms, cities, towns, families, sad particular persons; and of his withholding the communications of his grace, often compared to water in Scripture, even from his people; the effect of which is, that they are in, withering circumstances, the things that revive seem ready to die, though they shall not; love waxes cold, faith is ready to fail, and hope and strength seem perishing from the Lord:
also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth; as at the time of the flood, when the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and such vast quantities of water issued out as overflowed the whole world, by which it was overturned; and as the Apostle Peter says, "perished", 2 Peter 3:5; though this is also true of inundations that may have been since, which though not universal as that, yet so far as they have reached have overturned all in their way, and carried off the fruits of the earth, the habitations of men, and men themselves; whole countries, cities and towns, have been carried away by the waters of the sea, or sunk into it, particularly all that space. Where now is the Atlantic sea, as Pliny t, from Plato, relates. It is well when the grace of God flows, and overflows, and superabounds abounding sin, and overpowers and overcomes carnal, earthly, and sensual lusts, and reigns where sin did, and teaches to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, and to mortify the members on the earth.
s יעצר במים "detinebit in aquis", Montanus, Bolducius; "si contineat, vel cohibeat, q. d. imperium exerceat in aquas", Michaelis. t Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 90, 92.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He withholdeth the waters - From the clouds and springs. He has control over the rains and the fountains; and when these are withheld, rivers and lakes become dry. The Syriac renders this, - “if he rebuke the waters,” supposing that there might perhaps be an allusion to the drying up of the Red Sea, or the formation of a passage for the Israelites. But it is remarkable that in the argument here there is no allusion to any historical fact, not to the flood, or to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or to the passage through the Red Sea, though these occurrences would have furnished so appropriate illustrations of the points under discussion. Is it to be inferred that Job had never heard of any of those events? Or may it have been that the lessons which they were adapted to teach had been actually embodied in the proverbs which he was using, and furnished well-known illustrations or the basis of such apothegms?
He sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth - Such inundations may have occurred in the swollen torrents of Arabia, and indeed are so common everywhere as to furnish a striking illustration of the power and sovereign agency of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:15. He withholdeth the waters — This is, I think, an allusion to the third day's work of the creation, Genesis 1:9: And God said, Let the waters be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear. Thus the earth was drained, and the waters collected into seas, and bound to their particular places.
Also he sendeth them out — Here is also an allusion to the flood, for when he broke up the fountains of the great deep, then the earth was overturned.
