Job 38:28
Who is the father of rain, or who conceived the drops of dew?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
In Context
27so that it would fill impassable and desolate places, and would bring forth green plants?
29From whose womb did the ice proceed, and who created the frost from the air?
Cross References
Genesis 27:39Isaac was moved, and he said to him: “In the fatness of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above,
Deuteronomy 33:28Israel shall live in confidence and alone, as the eye of Jacob in a land of grain and of wine; and the heavens shall be misty with dew.
2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, let neither dew, nor rain fall over you, and may these not be the fields of the first-fruits. For in that place, the shield of the valiant was cast away, the shield of Saul, as if he had not been anointed with oil.
Job 5:9He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,
Psalms 147:8He announces his word to Jacob, his justices and his judgments to Israel.
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 →