but for its dryness and hardness, no moisture being in it, or passing through it; no showers of rain nor dew being let down from it:and the earth that is under thee [shall be] iron; or like iron, hard and impenetrable, into which the plough and spade will not enter; nor anything spring out of it, for want of rain and dew to moisten and soften it.
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Job 37:18
Job 37:18
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