Job 38:28

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Does the rain have a father, or who gives birth to the dew drops?

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  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Can the skies themselves send showers? No, it is You, LORD our God. Therefore, we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 He covers the sky with clouds; He prepares rain for the earth; He makes the mountains sprout grass.
  • Prov 3:20 : 20 By His knowledge the depths were divided, and the clouds drop down dew.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rains in their season—the early and late rains—and who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.'
  • Jer 10:13 : 13 At the sound of His thunder, water roars in the heavens. He causes clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of His storehouses.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad, children of Zion; rejoice in the LORD your God, for he has given you the autumn rains because he is faithful. He sends you abundant showers, both autumn and spring rains, as in the past.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 I withheld the rain from you when there were still three months until harvest. I caused it to rain on one city but not on another; one field received rain, while another withered due to lack of it.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may become children of your Father in heaven. For He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 May God give you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, an abundance of grain and new wine.
  • Gen 27:39 : 39 His father Isaac answered him, 'Your dwelling will be away from the richness of the earth and away from the dew of heaven above.'
  • Deut 33:13 : 13 Of Joseph he said: 'May his land be blessed by the Lord with the choicest gifts of heaven, with the dew and the waters lying beneath.'
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 So Israel will live in safety, isolated in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call out to the LORD, and He will send thunder and rain. Then you will realize and see how great is the evil you have done in the eyes of the LORD by asking for a king. 18 So Samuel called to the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled—the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah, the Tishbite from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years, except by my word."
  • Job 5:9-9 : 9 He performs great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. 10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My roots spread out to the waters, and the dew stayed overnight on my branches.
  • Job 38:8 : 8 Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb,
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 The whole earth is awed by your signs; where morning dawns and evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. 10 You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have prepared it.

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    29From whose womb does the ice come forth? Who gives birth to the frost of the heavens,

    30when the waters become hard as stone and the surface of the deep is frozen?

  • Job 38:24-27
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    24What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

    25Who cuts a channel for the torrents of rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

    26to water a land where no man lives, an uninhabited desert,

    27to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and make the dry, barren land produce grass?

  • Job 36:27-29
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    27For He draws up the drops of water; they distill as rain into His mist.

    28The clouds pour it out; they drip upon mankind in abundance.

    29Moreover, can anyone understand the expanse of the clouds, or the thunderings of His pavilion?

  • Job 38:36-38
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    36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

    37Who can count the clouds with wisdom or tilt the water jars of the heavens,

    38when the dust becomes hard as metal and the clods of earth stick together?

  • Job 38:21-22
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    21Surely you know, since you were already born, and the number of your days is great!

    22Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail,

  • Jer 14:22
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    22Can any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Can the skies themselves send showers? No, it is You, LORD our God. Therefore, we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

  • Prov 30:4
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    4Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his hands? Who has wrapped the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you set up their dominion over the earth?

    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover yourself with a flood of water?

  • Prov 3:20
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    20By His knowledge the depths were divided, and the clouds drop down dew.

  • Job 37:6
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    6He says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth,' and to the rain showers, 'Be strong.'

  • Job 5:10
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    10He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Ps 147:8
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    8He covers the sky with clouds; He prepares rain for the earth; He makes the mountains sprout grass.

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15Do you know how God orders them and how He causes the lightning of His clouds to shine?

    16Do you understand the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of Him who has perfect knowledge?

    17You who feel your garments warm when the earth is quiet under the south wind.

    18Can you spread out the skies with Him, as firm as a molten mirror?

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    7He brings up clouds from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from His storehouses.

  • Isa 55:10
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    10As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, providing seed for the sower and bread for the eater,

  • Job 37:10-11
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    10By the breath of God, ice is made, and the broad waters are frozen solid.

    11Even with moisture, He loads the thick clouds and scatters His lightning from them.

  • Jer 51:16
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    16When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth wind from His storehouses.

  • Jer 18:14
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    14Does snow vanish from Lebanon’s rocky slopes? Do cool, flowing waters from afar dry up?

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    8Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb,

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    2May my teaching fall like rain, my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on grass and abundant showers on plants.

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    13At the sound of His thunder, water roars in the heavens. He causes clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of His storehouses.

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    26when He made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

  • Job 38:18-19
    2 verses
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    18Have you comprehended the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know all this.

    19Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

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    2Can you count the months they fulfill, or do you know the time when they give birth?

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    4Have you not just now called to me, 'My Father, you are the friend of my youth'?

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    13He waters the mountains from His upper chambers; the earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works.

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  • Gen 2:6
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    6But a mist would rise from the earth and water the entire surface of the ground.

  • Isa 40:13
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    13Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counselor?

  • Job 26:8
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    8He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not torn apart beneath them.

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    13Who appointed Him over the earth? Or who gave Him charge over the whole world?