Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

In Context

27To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?

29From whose belly came forth the ice? And the hoarfrost of the heavens, || Who has begotten it?

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Cross References

Genesis 27:39And his father Isaac answers and says to him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth is your dwelling, and of the dew of the heavens from above;

Deuteronomy 33:28And Israel dwells [in] confidence alone; The eye of Jacob [is] to a land of grain and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

2 Samuel 1:21Mountains of Gilboa! No dew nor rain be on you, || And fields of raised-offerings! For there has become loathsome || The shield of the mighty, || The shield of Saul—without the anointed with oil.

Job 5:9Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, until there is no numbering.

Job 38:8And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.

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 →

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