Job 38:28 “Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?”

Job 38:28

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

Darby Translation

Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

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Cross references

“Hath the”

Jeremiah 14:22 Jeremiah 10:13 Job 38:8 Jeremiah 5:24 Joel 2:23 Amos 4:7

Jeremiah 14:22 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 10:13 · BSB

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.

Job 38:8 · BSB

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Jeremiah 5:24 · BSB

They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

Joel 2:23 · BSB

Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.

Amos 4:7 · BSB

“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.

“dew”

Proverbs 3:20 Job 29:19 Genesis 27:28 Genesis 27:39 Deuteronomy 33:13 Deuteronomy 33:28

Proverbs 3:20 · BSB

By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.

Job 29:19 · BSB

My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.

Genesis 27:28 · BSB

May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.

Genesis 27:39 · BSB

His 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 33:13 · BSB

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,

Deuteronomy 33:28 · BSB

So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.

Also

Psalm 147:8

Psalm 147:8 · BSB

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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,

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