Job 37:6
Good News Translation
He commands snow to fall on the earth, and sends torrents of drenching rain.

New Revised Standard Version
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’; and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,

Contemporary English Version
Snow and heavy rainstorms

New American Bible
He says to the snow, “Fall to the earth”; likewise to his heavy, drenching rain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Job 38:22 Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:

Psalm 147:16-18 Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes. . . .

Psalm 148:8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

likewise to the small, etc.

Job 36:27 He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

great

Genesis 7:10-12 And after the seven days were passed, the waters of the flood overflowed the earth. . . .

Ezra 10:9,13 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. . . .

Proverbs 28:3 A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

Ezekiel 13:11,13 Say to them that daub without tempering, that it shall fall: for there shall be an overflowing shower, and I will cause great hailstones to fall violently from above, and a stormy wind to throw it down. . . .

Amos 9:6 And the Lord the God of hosts is he who toucheth the earth, and it shall melt: and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up as a river, and shall run down as the river of Egypt.

Matthew 7:25-27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. . . .

Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
5God shall thunder wonderfully with his voice, he that doth great and unsearchable things. 6He commandeth the snow to go down upon the earth, and the winter rain, and the shower of his strength.7He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.…
Cross References
Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

Job 28:26
When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.

Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

Job 38:22
Hast thou entered into the storehouses of the snow, or hast thou beheld the treasures of the hail:

Psalm 147:16
Who giveth snow like wool: scattereth mists like ashes.

Job 37:5
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