New Revised Standard Version
Whether for correction, or for his land, or for love, he causes it to happen.

Contemporary English Version
to release their cargo--sometimes as punishment for sin, sometimes as kindness.

New American Bible
Whether for punishment or mercy, he makes it happen.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.

Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.

whether

Job 37:6 He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.

Job 36:31 For by these he judgeth people, and giveth food to many mortals.

Job 38:37,38 Who can declare the order of the heavens, or who can make the harmony of heaven to sleep? . . .

Exodus 9:18-25 Behold I will cause it to rain to morrow at this same hour, an exceeding great hail; such as hath not been in Egypt from the day that it was founded, until this present time. . . .

1 Samuel 12:18,19 And Samuel cried unto the Lord, and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day. . . .

Ezra 10:9 Then all the men of Juda, and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within three days, in the ninth month, the twentieth day of the month: and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling because of the sin, and the rain.

correction.

Job 38:26,27 That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth: . . .

for mercy

2 Samuel 21:10,14 And Respha the daughter of Aia took haircloth, and spread it under her upon the rock from the beginning of the harvest, till water dropped upon them out of heaven: and suffered neither the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night. . . .

1 Kings 18:45 And while he turned himself this way and that way, behold the heavens grew dark, with clouds and wind, and there fell a great rain. And Achab getting up, went away to Jezrahel:

Joel 2:23 And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.