Job 37:12
Good News Translation
as they move at God's will. They do all that God commands, everywhere throughout the world.

New Revised Standard Version
They turn round and round by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world.

Contemporary English Version
traveling across the sky

New American Bible
He it is who changes their rounds, according to his plans, to do all that he commands them across the inhabited world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth:

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Psalm 65:9,10 Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation. . . .

Psalm 104:24 How great are thy works, O Lord ? thou hast made all things in wisdom: the earth is filled with thy riches.

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Joel 2:23 And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.

Amos 4:7 I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

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Psalm 148:8 Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

James 5:17,18 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months. . . .

Revelation 11:6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: And they have power over waters, to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Context
Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty
11Corn desireth clouds, and the clouds spread their light: 12Which go round about, whithersoever the will of him that governeth them shall lead them, to whatsoever he shall command them upon the face of the whole earth:13Whether in one tribe, or in his own land, or in what place soever of his mercy he shall command them to be found.…
Cross References
Job 36:32
In his hands he hideth the light, and commandeth it to come again.

Job 37:3
He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.

Psalm 147:15
Who sendeth forth his speech to the earth: his word runneth swiftly.

Psalm 148:8
Fire, hail, snow, ice, stormy winds, which fulfil his word:

Isaiah 14:21
Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

Isaiah 27:6
When they shall rush in unto Jacob, Israel shall blossom and bud, and they shall fill the face of the world with seed.

Job 37:11
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