Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth.
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
Holman Bible
turning round and round at His direction,
accomplishing everything He commands them
over the surface of the inhabited world.
International Standard Version
It whirls about in circles at his direction to accomplish all that he commands throughout the surface of the entire world,
A Conservative Version
and it is turned round about by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them upon the face of the habitable world.
American Standard Version
And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world,
Amplified
“Its direction is turned around by His guidance,
That it may do whatever He commands it
On the face of the inhabited earth.
Bible in Basic English
And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,
Darby Translation
And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,
Julia Smith Translation
Being turned by his guidance to their doing all that he commanded them upon the face of the habitable globe of the earth.
King James 2000
And it is turned around by his guidance: that they may do whatsoever he commands them upon the face of the whole earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {they} turn around by his guidance to accomplish all that he has commanded them on [the] face of {the habitable world}.
Modern King James verseion
and it is turned around by His guidance, so that they may do whatever He commands them on the face of the world in the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He distributeth also on every side, according as it pleaseth him to deal out his works, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them through the whole world:
NET Bible
The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.
New Heart English Bible
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
The Emphasized Bible
Yea, the same, in circles, turneth itself to and fro, by his steering them to their work, whithersoever he commandeth them, over the face of the world, towards the earth.
Webster
And it is turned around by his counsels: that they may do whatever he commandeth them upon the face of the world on the earth.
World English Bible
It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 37:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Extols God's Majesty
11 Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light. 12 And it is turning itself round by His counsels, For their doing all He commandeth them, On the face of the habitable earth. 13 Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.
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Cross References
Psalm 148:8
Fire and hail, snow and vapour, Whirlwind doing His word;
Psalm 65:9-10
Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,
Psalm 104:24
How many have been Thy works, O Jehovah, All of them in wisdom Thou hast made, Full is the earth of thy possessions.
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there among the vanities of the nations any causing rain? And do the heavens give showers? Art not Thou He, O Jehovah our God? And we wait for thee, for Thou -- Thou hast done all these!
Joel 2:23
And ye sons of Zion, joy and rejoice, In Jehovah your God, For He hath given to you the Teacher for righteousness, And causeth to come down to you a shower, Sprinkling and gathered -- in the beginning.
Amos 4:7
And I also -- I have withheld from you the rain. While yet three months to harvest, And I have sent rain on one city, And on another city I do not send rain, One portion is rained on, And the portion on which it raineth not withereth.
James 5:17-18
Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray -- not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;
Revelation 11:6
These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.