Proverbs 3:20

Role Of Wisdom In Creation And Society

¹⁹ The Lord founded the earth by wisdom
and established the heavens by understanding.
²⁰ By His knowledge the watery depths broke open,
and the clouds dripped with dew. ²¹ Maintain your competence and discretion.
My son, don’t lose sight of them.

Of The Earth

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the sources of the watery depths burst open, the floodgates of the sky were opened,

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel dwells securely;
Jacob lives untroubled
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.

Genesis 1:9

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

Genesis 27:28

May God give to you—
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land—
an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:37-39

But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”

Job 36:27-28

For He makes waterdrops evaporate;
they distill the rain into its mist,

Job 38:8-11

Who enclosed the sea behind doors
when it burst from the womb,

Job 38:26-28

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,

Psalm 65:9-12

You visit the earth and water it abundantly,
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth in this way,
providing people with grain.

Psalm 104:8-9

mountains rose and valleys sank—
to the place You established for them.

Jeremiah 14:22

Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain?
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.

Joel 2:23

Children of Zion, rejoice and be glad
in the Lord your God,
because He gives you the autumn rain
for your vindication.
He sends showers for you,
both autumn and spring rain as before.