Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Whether for a rod, or for His land, Or for kindness -- He doth cause it to come.

New American Standard Bible

“Whether for correction, or for His world,
Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

King James Version

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Holman Bible

He causes this to happen for punishment,
for His land, or for His faithful love.

International Standard Version

whether for discipline on his land or to demonstrate his gracious love, he causes it to be realized."

A Conservative Version

He causes it to come, whether it be for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness.

American Standard Version

Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.

Amplified


“Whether [it be] for correction, or for His earth [generally]
Or for [His] mercy and lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

Bible in Basic English

For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.

Darby Translation

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

Julia Smith Translation

If for the rod, if for his land, if for mercy, it shall find him.

King James 2000

He causes it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Whether as {correction} or for his land, or as loyal love, he lets it happen.

Modern King James verseion

Whether as a whip, or for His land, or for mercy, He finds it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

whether it be to punish any land, or to do good unto them, that seek him.

NET Bible

Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

New Heart English Bible

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

The Emphasized Bible

Whether, as a rod, or for his earth, or in lovingkindness, he causeth it to come.

Webster

He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.

World English Bible

Whether it is for correction, or for his land, or for loving kindness, that he causes it to come.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He causeth it to come
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

שׁבט 
Shebet 
Usage: 190

or for his land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Morish

Context Readings

Elihu Extols God's Majesty

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. 14 Hear this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:45

And it cometh to pass, in the meantime, that the heavens have become black -- thick clouds and wind -- and the shower is great; and Ahab rideth, and goeth to Jezreel,

1 Samuel 12:18-19

And Samuel calleth unto Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth voices and rain, on that day, and all the people greatly fear Jehovah and Samuel;

Job 38:26-27

To cause it to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.

Ezra 10:9

And gathered are all the men of Judah and Benjamin to Jerusalem by the third day, it is the ninth month, on the twentieth of the month, and all the people sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling on account of the matter and of the showers.

Job 36:31

For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

Exodus 9:18-25

lo, I am raining about this time to-morrow hail very grievous, such as hath not been in Egypt, even from the day of its being founded, even until now.

2 Samuel 21:10

And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

2 Samuel 21:14

and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.

Job 37:6

For to snow He saith, 'Be on the earth.' And the small rain and great rain of His power.

Job 38:37-38

Who doth number the clouds by wisdom? And the bottles of the heavens, Who doth cause to lie down,

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.

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