Job 38:26
To rain upon the land where there is no man, 1 The wilderness, where there is not a man in it; 1 So as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land, 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
In Context
25And who prepared a course for the violent rain, 1 And a way for the thunders; 1
27And cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs? 1
Cross References
Psalms 104:10And he established it to Jacob for an ordinance, 1 And to Israel for an everlasting covenant; 1
Psalms 147:8He sends his word to Jacob, 1 His ordinances and judgments to Israel. 1
Isaiah 41:18but I will open rivers on the mountains, and fountains in the midst of plains: I will make the desert pools of water, and a thirsty land watercourses.
Jeremiah 10:13and set abundance of waters in the sky, and brought up clouds from the ends of the earth; he made lightnings for the rain, and brought forth light out of his treasures.
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 →