What Does Job 5:10 Mean in the King James?
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The water that sustains the field is not made by the field: it is given, then sent across the land.
THE MEANING
Rain does not begin in the field it waters; it is given and sent across the open land. The verse presents the life sustaining the ground beneath you now as provision arriving from beyond the ground itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A field does not generate the rain that sustains it; the water it needs is given and sent.
THE ROOT
שֹׁלֵחַ
sholeach
GROWS FROM
שלח
sh-l-ḥ
To send, send forth, or release.
“sendeth” in this verse is sholeach. English presents a simple delivery, while the root also carries the sense of release and movement outward. The water is not merely present on the land; it is sent across it, into the places where life grows.
ALSO GROWS
shaluach: Sent, dispatched.
שָׁלוּחַ
The same root describes something set in motion toward a destination, as the water is sent over the land.
Shiloach: Shiloah, the name of a waterway; literally, “sent.”
שִׁלֹחַ
This waterway’s name shares the send-root, joining the idea of water with the act of sending.
הַנֹּתֵן
hanoten
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
To give, set, or place.
“giveth” in this verse is hanoten. The word is a participle: “the one giving.” Its root also means to set or place, so the rain is not only given as provision; it is placed upon the earth. The verse holds giving and placement together in a single action.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This verb shares the root with “giveth” and shows that giving can also mean placing something where it is needed.
mattan: A gift.
מַתָּן
This noun from the same root makes explicit the gift already present in the rain given to the land.
THE PATTERN
Rain is provision sent beyond the land’s own power, reaching ground where life grows.
Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.THE THREAD
Forasmuch as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;The waterway’s name, שִׁלֹחַ (Shiloach, “sent”), carries the same root שלח (sh-l-ḥ, “send, release”) as Job’s “sendeth.” Isaiah’s “waters of Shiloah that go softly” makes the sending in Job concrete: water moves outward in a quiet current.
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