Job 38:27
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
In Context
26Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
28Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Cross References
Psalms 104:14He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;
Psalms 147:8By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on 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 →