Job 5:10

5:10 he gives ¹  rain on the earth, ² 

and sends ³  water on the fields; ⁴ 

Job 38:26-28

38:26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, ⁵ 

a desert where there are no human beings, ⁶ 

38:27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land,

and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? ⁷ 

38:28 Does the rain have a father,

or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Psalms 65:9-11

65:9 You visit the earth and give it rain; ⁸ 

you make it rich and fertile ⁹ 

with overflowing streams full of water. ¹⁰ 

You provide grain for them, ¹¹ 

for you prepare the earth to yield its crops. ¹² 

65:10 You saturate ¹³  its furrows,

and soak ¹⁴  its plowed ground. ¹⁵ 

With rain showers you soften its soil, ¹⁶ 

and make its crops grow. ¹⁷ 

65:11 You crown the year with your good blessings, ¹⁸ 

and you leave abundance in your wake. ¹⁹ 

Psalms 135:7

135:7 He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth,

makes lightning bolts accompany the rain,

and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

Jeremiah 14:22

14:22 Do any of the worthless idols ²⁰  of the nations cause rain to fall?

Do the skies themselves send showers?

Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? ²¹ 

So we put our hopes in you ²² 

because you alone do all this.”

Matthew 5:45

5:45 so that you may be like ²³  your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Hebrews 6:7

6:7 For the ground that has soaked up the rain that frequently falls on ²⁴  it and yields useful vegetation for those who tend it receives a blessing from God.

[5:10]  ¹ tn Heb “who gives.” The participle continues the doxology here. But the article is necessary because of the distance between this verse and the reference to God.

[5:10]  ² tn In both halves of the verse the literal rendering would be “upon the face of the earth” and “upon the face of the fields.”

[5:10]  ³ tn The second participle is simply coordinated to the first and therefore does not need the definite article repeated (see GKC 404 §126.b).

[5:10]  ⁴ tn The Hebrew term חוּצוֹת (khutsot) basically means “outside,” or what is outside. It could refer to streets if what is meant is outside the house; but it refers to fields here (parallel to the more general word) because it is outside the village. See Ps 144:13 for the use of the expression for “countryside.” The LXX gives a much wider interpretation: “what is under heaven.”

[38:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “on a land, no man.”

[38:26]  ⁶ tn Heb “a desert, no man in it.”

[38:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “to cause to sprout a source of vegetation.” The word מֹצָא (motsa’) is rendered “mine” in Job 28:1. The suggestion with the least changes is Wright’s: צָמֵא (tsame’, “thirsty”). But others choose מִצִּיָּה (mitsiyyah, “from the steppe”).

[65:9]  ⁸ tn The verb form is a Polel from שׁוּק (shuq, “be abundant”), a verb which appears only here and in Joel 2:24 and 3:13, where it is used in the Hiphil stem and means “overflow.”

[65:9]  ⁹ tn Heb “you greatly enrich it.”

[65:9]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “[with] a channel of God full of water.” The divine name is probably used here in a superlative sense to depict a very deep stream (“a stream fit for God,” as it were).

[65:9]  ¹¹ tn The pronoun apparently refers to the people of the earth, mentioned in v. 8.

[65:9]  ¹² tn Heb “for thus [referring to the provision of rain described in the first half of the verse] you prepare it.” The third feminine singular pronominal suffix attached to the verb “prepare” refers back to the “earth,” which is a feminine noun with regard to grammatical form.

[65:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].

[65:10]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”

[65:10]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”

[65:10]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.

[65:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.

[65:11]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.

[65:11]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”

[14:22]  ²⁰ tn The word הֶבֶל (hevel), often translated “vanities”, is a common pejorative epithet for idols or false gods. See already in 8:19 and 10:8.

[14:22]  ²¹ tn Heb “Is it not you, O Lord our God?” The words “who does” are supplied in the translation for English style.

[14:22]  ²² tn The rhetorical negatives are balanced by a rhetorical positive.

[5:45]  ²³ tn Grk “be sons of your Father in heaven.” Here, however, the focus is not on attaining a relationship (becoming a child of God) but rather on being the kind of person who shares the characteristics of God himself (a frequent meaning of the Semitic idiom “son of”). See L&N 58.26.

[6:7]  ²⁴ tn Grk “comes upon.”