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Job 37:13 King James He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Literally, "He maketh it (the rain-cloud) find place," whether for correction, if (it be destined) for His land (that is, for the part inhabited by man, with whom God deals, as opposed to the parts uninhabited, on which rain is at other times appointed to fall, Job 38:26-27) or for mercy. "If it be destined for His land" is a parenthetical supposition [MAURER]. In English Version, this clause spoils the even balance of the antithesis between the "rod" (Margin) and "mercy" (Psa 68:9; Gen. 7:1-24).
 
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9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
30 Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.