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New American Standard Bible
And He
King James Version
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Holman Bible
and when He releases them, they destroy the land.
International Standard Version
When he withholds water, rivers dry up; when he lets them loose, they'll flood the land.
A Conservative Version
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
American Standard Version
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Amplified
“Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up;
Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Darby Translation
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; and he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
Behold, he will hold back upon the waters, and they will dry up: and he will send them forth and they will overturn the earth.
King James 2000
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Look, [if] he withholds the water, then they dry up; and [if] he sends them out, then they overwhelm [the] land.
Modern King James verseion
Behold, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Behold, if he withhold the waters, they dry up; If he let them go, they destroy the earth.
NET Bible
If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
New Heart English Bible
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:
Webster
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
World English Bible
Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.
Youngs Literal Translation
Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.
Themes
Government » God setting up and removing kings
Nations » The lord destroying nations
Philosophy » Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and his providence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 12:15
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Behold, he shall break down, and it shall not be built again; he shall shut up a man, and no one shall be able to open unto him.
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And He
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1 Kings 17:1
Then Elijah, the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Genesis 6:13
And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, in which is the spirit of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
Genesis 7:11-2
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Deuteronomy 11:17
and then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain and that the land yield not her fruit, and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
1 Kings 8:35-36
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them,
Job 12:10
In his hand is the soul of every living thing and the spirit of all flesh of man.
Psalm 104:7-9
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause it to rain? or can the heavens give rain? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee, for thou hast made all these things.
Amos 5:8
look unto him that makes the seven stars and Orion and turns the shadow of death into the morning and makes the day dark with night, that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name;
Nahum 1:4
He reprehends the sea and makes it dry and dries up all the rivers; Bashan was destroyed, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon was destroyed.
Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land,
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man subject to passions like unto ours, and he asked in prayer that it might not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.
Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut the heaven, that it not rain in the days of their prophecy and have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.