Job 38:28
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
In Context
27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
29From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
Cross References
Genesis 27:39His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to 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 →