Job 36:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
"He draws up the drops of water, which distill as rain to the streams;

New Living Translation
He draws up the water vapor and then distills it into rain.

English Standard Version
For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,

Berean Study Bible
For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,

New American Standard Bible
“For He draws up the drops of water; They distill rain from its celestial stream,

NASB 1995
"For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,

NASB 1977
“For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,

Amplified Bible
“For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,

Christian Standard Bible
For he makes waterdrops evaporate; they distill the rain into its mist,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For He makes waterdrops evaporate; they distill the rain into its mist,

Contemporary English Version
God gathers moisture into the clouds

Good News Translation
It is God who takes water from the earth and turns it into drops of rain.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He collects drops of water. He distills rain from his mist,

International Standard Version
He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.

NET Bible
He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

New King James Version
For He draws up drops of water, Which distill as rain from the mist,

King James 2000 Bible
For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to its vapor:

New Heart English Bible
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

World English Bible
For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

American King James Version
For he makes small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor thereof:

American Standard Version
For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

A Faithful Version
For He draws up the drops of water; they distill into rain from the mist,

Darby Bible Translation
For he draweth up the drops of water: they distil in rain from the vapour which he formeth,

English Revised Version
For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour:

Webster's Bible Translation
For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapor of it.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
When he restraineth the droppes of water, the rayne powreth down by the vapour thereof,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Sometime he restrayneth the rayne, and againe he sendeth rayne by his cloudes:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He turneth ye water to smaldroppes, he dryueth his cloudes
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When He diminishes droppings of the waters, "" They refine rain according to its vapor,

Young's Literal Translation
When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,

Smith's Literal Translation
For he will withhold the drops of water: they will pour out rain for its vapor.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods :

Catholic Public Domain Version
He carries away the drops of rain, and he sends forth showers like a raging whirlpool;

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
If he will number the pillars of Heaven and will bind the drops of rain by himself

Lamsa Bible
For if we should number the pillars of the heaven, and bind the drops of rain by themselves, which the skies do drop in their season;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For He draweth away the drops of water, Which distil rain from His vapour;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the drops of rain are numbered by him, and shall be poured out in rain to form a cloud.
















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