Job 12:15

If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; ¹  if he releases them, ²  they destroy ³  the land.

Ge 6:13,17; Ge 7:11,23; Ge 8:1,2; 1Ki 8:35,36; 1Ki 17:1; Job 12:10; Ps 104:7-9; Jer 14:22; Am 5:8; Na 1:4; Lu 4:25; Jas 5:17,18; Re 11:6

¹ tc The LXX has a clarification: “he will dry the earth.”

² sn The verse is focusing on the two extremes of drought and flood. Both are described as being under the power of God.

³ tn The verb הָפַךְ (hafakh) means “to overthrow; to destroy; to overwhelm.” It was used in Job 9:5 for “overturning” mountains. The word is used in Genesis for the destruction of Sodom.