Job 38:27
To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?
Literal Standard Version
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
26To cause [it] to rain on a land [with] no man, || A wilderness [with] no man in it.
28Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Cross References
Psalms 104:14Causing grass to spring up for livestock, || And herb for the service of man, || To bring forth bread from the earth,
Psalms 147:8Who is covering the heavens with clouds, || Who is preparing rain for the earth, || Who is causing grass to spring up [on] 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 →