Job Chapter 36 verse 31 Holy Bible
For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.
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For by these he gives food to the peoples, and bread in full measure.
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For with them he judgeth the peoples; he giveth food in abundance.
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For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.
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For by them he judgeth the people; he giveth food in abundance.
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For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
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For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 31. - For by them judgeth he the people. By his clouds God works two opposite effects. On the one hand, he executes judgment upon the peoples, destroying their crops, causing widespread ruin by inundations, smiting and slaying numbers with his thunderbolts; on the other, he giveth meat in abundance, restoring to the parched earth its fertility by means of copious and refreshing showers, stimulating vegetation, and so furthering the harvest.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(31) For by them--i.e., these roots of the sea, these drops of water, these rain-clouds. "He judgeth peoples" by withholding them, or "giveth meat in abundance" by sending rain on the earth; or He may use them in excess, to chastise nations by inundations and the like. The change from roots of the sea to bottom of the sea in the Authorised Version has obscured the meaning of "them" in the next verse, unless, indeed, we understand it generally, by these things.