Job 36:31

36:31 It is by these that he judges ¹  the nations

and supplies food in abundance.

Job 36:13

36:13 The godless at heart ²  nourish anger, ³ 

they do not cry out even when he binds them.

Exodus 9:18

9:18 I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down ⁴  about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred ⁵  in Egypt from the day it was founded ⁶  until now.

Exodus 9:24

9:24 Hail fell ⁷  and fire mingled ⁸  with the hail; the hail was so severe ⁹  that there had not been any like it ¹⁰  in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

Joshua 10:11

10:11 As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from ¹¹  Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, ¹²  all the way to Azekah. They died – in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.

Isaiah 30:30

30:30 The Lord will give a mighty shout ¹³ 

and intervene in power, ¹⁴ 

with furious anger and flaming, destructive fire, ¹⁵ 

with a driving rainstorm and hailstones.

Ezekiel 13:11-13

13:11 Tell the ones who coat it with whitewash that it will fall. When there is a deluge of rain, hailstones ¹⁶  will fall and a violent wind will break out. ¹⁷  13:12 When the wall has collapsed, people will ask you, “Where is the whitewash you coated it with?”

13:13 “‘Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: In my rage I will make a violent wind break out. In my anger there will be a deluge of rain and hailstones in destructive fury.

Matthew 7:27

7:27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!” ¹⁸ 

Revelation 16:21

16:21 And gigantic hailstones, weighing about a hundred pounds ¹⁹  each, fell from heaven ²⁰  on people, ²¹  but they ²²  blasphemed God because of the plague of hail, since it ²³  was so horrendous. ²⁴ 

[36:31]  ¹ tn The verb is יָדִין (yadin, “he judges”). Houbigant proposedיָזוּן (yazun, “he nourishes”). This has found wide acceptance among commentators (cf. NAB). G. R. Driver retained the MT but gave a meaning “enriches” to the verb (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 88ff.).

[36:13]  ² tn The expression “godless [or hypocrite] in heart” is an intensification of the description. It conveys that they are intentionally godless. See Matt 23:28.

[36:13]  ³ tn Heb “they put anger.” This is usually interpreted to mean they lay up anger, or put anger in their hearts.

[9:18]  ⁴ tn הִנְנִי מַמְטִיר (hinÿni mamtir) is the futur instans construction, giving an imminent future translation: “Here – I am about to cause it to rain.”

[9:18]  ⁵ tn Heb “which not was like it in Egypt.” The pronoun suffix serves as the resumptive pronoun for the relative particle: “which…like it” becomes “the like of which has not been.” The word “hail” is added in the translation to make clear the referent of the relative particle.

[9:18]  ⁶ tn The form הִוָּסְדָה (hivvasdah) is perhaps a rare Niphal perfect and not an infinitive (U. Cassuto, Exodus, 117).

[9:24]  ⁷ tn The verb is the common preterite וַיְהִי (vayÿhi), which is normally translated “and there was” if it is translated at all. The verb הָיָה (hayah), however, can mean “be, become, befall, fall, fall out, happen.” Here it could be simply translated “there was hail,” but the active “hail fell” fits the point of the sequence better.

[9:24]  ⁸ tn The form מִתְלַקַּחַת (mitlaqqakhat) is a Hitpael participle; the clause reads, “and fire taking hold of itself in the midst of the hail.” This probably refers to lightning flashing back and forth. See also Ezek 1:4. God created a great storm with flashing fire connected to it.

[9:24]  ⁹ tn Heb “very heavy” or “very severe.” The subject “the hail” is implied.

[9:24]  ¹⁰ tn A literal reading of the clause would be “which there was not like it in all the land of Egypt.” The relative pronoun must be joined to the resumptive pronoun: “which like it (like which) there had not been.”

[10:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “on the descent of.”

[10:11]  ¹² tn Or “heaven” (also in v. 13). The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.

[30:30]  ¹³ tn Heb “the Lord will cause the splendor of his voice to be heard.”

[30:30]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and reveal the lowering of his arm.”

[30:30]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and a flame of consuming fire.”

[13:11]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “and you, O hailstones.”

[13:11]  ¹⁷ sn A violent wind will break out. God’s judgments are frequently described in storm imagery (Pss 18:7-15; 77:17-18; 83:15; Isa 28:17; 30:30; Jer 23:19; 30:23).

[7:27]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “and great was its fall.”

[16:21]  ¹⁹ tn Here BDAG 988 s.v. ταλαντιαῖος states, “weighing a talent…χάλαζα μεγάλη ὡς ταλαντιαία a severe hailstorm with hailstones weighing a talent (the talent=125 librae, or Roman pounds of c. 343 gr. or 12 ounces each) (weighing about a hundred pounds NRSV) Rv 16:21.” This means each hailstone would weigh just under 100 pounds or 40 kilograms.

[16:21]  ²⁰ tn Or “the sky.” Due to the apocalyptic nature of this book, it is probably best to leave the translation as “from heaven,” since God is ultimately the source of the judgment.

[16:21]  ²¹ tn Grk “on men,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a generic sense to refer to people in general (the hailstones did not single out adult males, but would have also fallen on women and children).

[16:21]  ²² tn Grk “the men”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun “they” is used here.

[16:21]  ²³ tn Grk “the plague of it.”

[16:21]  ²⁴ tn Grk “since the plague of it was exceedingly great.”