Job 38:28
Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
In Context
27to satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who has engendered it?
Cross References
Genesis 27:39And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, and of the dew of heaven from above.
Deuteronomy 33:28And Israel dwells in safety, the fountain of Jacob alone, in a land of grain and new wine. Yea, his heavens drop down dew.
2 Samuel 1:21Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
Job 5:9who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
Job 38:8Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,
Psalms 147:8who covers the heavens with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow upon the mountains.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:26-41
God's Sovereign Dominion and Goodness. ( b. c. 1520.) 25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The… Read the whole commentary →