Job 38:28
26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
30 when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
- KJV
- Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- WEB
- Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
- ASV
- Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
- DARBY
- Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?
- BLB
- Is there a father for the rain? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
- ÅB
- Har regnet noen far? Eller hvem har avlet duggens dråper?
- OTB
- Har regnet en far?
Hvem er far til duggdråpene? - B1930
- Har regnet nogen far? Eller hvem har avlet duggens dråper?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 14:22
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
Read in contextPsalms 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Read in contextJeremiah 10:13
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Read in contextProverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:13
Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
Read in contextGenesis 27:28
May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
Read in contextHosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Read in context1 Samuel 12:17–18
Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.”
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