Job 38:28

Translations

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Is there a father for the rain? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

Latin

Quis est pluviæ pater? vel quis genuit stillas roris?

Original

Hebrew

English

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

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

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.
Psalm 147:8
…who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
Jeremiah 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.
Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
Deuteronomy 33:28
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.
2 Samuel 1:21
O 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.
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Genesis 27:28
May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth—an abundance of grain and new wine.
Psalm 65:9–10
You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
1 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.”
Deuteronomy 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,
Job 5:9–10
…the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Glossary

Book of Job God, Names of Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

Blessing: Temporal, from God God: Creator God: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena: General Scriptures Concerning

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