Job 38:28
Does the rain have a father? Who was the father of the dewdrops?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
In Context
27to water a parched wasteland to make the green grass grow?
29Who was the mother of ice? Does the frost of the air have a mother?
Cross References
Genesis 27:39Then his father Isaac declared, “Listen! You will live far away from fertile land, far from the dew of heaven that falls from above.
Deuteronomy 33:28As a result Israel lives in peace; Jacob has no trouble in a country of grain and new wine, where the heavens drip with dew.
2 Samuel 1:21Mountains of Gilboa, may no dew or rain fall on you! May you have no fields that produce offerings of grain. For it was there that the shield of the mighty was defiled; Saul's shield, no longer cared for with olive oil.
Job 5:9He is the one who does amazing, incredible things; miracles that can't be counted!
Job 38:8Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
Psalms 147:8He covers the sky with clouds to bring rain to the earth, and makes the grass grow on the hills.
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 →