Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the skies drip with dew.

King James Version

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Holman Bible

By His knowledge the watery depths broke open,
and the clouds dripped with dew.

International Standard Version

By his knowledge the depths broke open, and the clouds drip with dew.

A Conservative Version

By his knowledge the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

American Standard Version

By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.

Amplified


By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the clouds drip with dew.

Bible in Basic English

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

Darby Translation

By his knowledge the deeps were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

Julia Smith Translation

By his knowledge the depths were rent, and the clouds will drop dew.

King James 2000

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Lexham Expanded Bible

With his knowledge, depths broke open, and clouds dropped dew.

Modern King James verseion

By His knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Through his wisdom the depths break up, and the clouds drop down of the dew.

NET Bible

By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, and the clouds drip down dew.

New Heart English Bible

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

The Emphasized Bible

By his knowledge, the resounding deeps were burst open, and, the skies, drop down dew.

Webster

By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

World English Bible

By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

Youngs Literal Translation

By His knowledge depths have been rent, And clouds do drop dew.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
דּעת 
Da`ath 
Usage: 91

the depths
תּהם תּהום 
T@howm 
Usage: 36

are broken up
בּקע 
Baqa` 
Usage: 51

and the clouds
שׁחק 
Shachaq 
Usage: 21

רעף 
Ra`aph 
Usage: 5

References

Hastings

Dew

Morish

Dew

Context Readings

Role Of Wisdom In Creation And Society

19 In wisdom Jehovah founded the earth. In understanding he established the heavens. 20 By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the skies drip with dew.
21 My son, do not let them depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion!

Cross References

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that day all the springs of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky were opened.

Deuteronomy 33:28

Israel dwells in security. The fountain of Jacob is secluded in a land of grain and new wine. His heavens also drop down dew.

Genesis 1:9

Then God said: Let the waters below the atmosphere be gathered into one place. Let the dry land appear. It was so.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven, the fatness of the earth, and an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:37-39

Isaac answered: I have already made him master over you. I have made all his relatives his slaves. I have given him grain and wine. Now there is nothing that I can do for you, son!

Job 36:27-28

He draws up drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams.

Job 38:8-11

Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb?

Job 38:26-28

Who waters a land where no man lives, a desert with no one in it?

Psalm 65:9-12

You visit the earth and cause it to overflow. You greatly enrich it! The stream of God is full of water. You prepare their grain and thus you prepare the earth.

Psalm 104:8-9

The mountains rose and the valleys sank down to the place you appointed for them.

Jeremiah 14:22

The valueless gods of the nations cannot make it rain. The skies cannot give showers by themselves. But you can, O Jehovah our God. We hope in you because you do all these things.

Joel 2:23

Be glad you children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God! For he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes it to rain, the early rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

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