Job 38:28

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne, or geue the showres from heauen? Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God? we wyll trust in thee, for thou doest all these thynges.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 Who couereth the heauen with cloudes: who prepareth rayne for the earth, who maketh grasse to growe vppon the mountaynes.
  • Prov 3:20 : 20 Thorow his knowledge the deapthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the deawe.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 They thinke not in their heartes, O let vs feare the Lord our God, who geueth vs raine early and late when nede is, whiche kepeth euer still the haruest for vs yerely.
  • Jer 10:13 : 13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre, he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth, he turneth lightning to raine, and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I wyll be vnto Israel as the deawe, and he shall growe as the lilie, and his roote shall breake out as the trees of Libanus.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then ye children of Sion, and reioyce in the Lorde your God: for he hath geuen you moderate rayne, & he wyll sende downe for you the rayne, euen the first rayne & the latter rayne, in the first moneth.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 And also I haue withholden the rayne from you when there were yet three monethes to the haruest, and I caused it to rayne vpon one citie, and haue not caused it to rayne vpon an other citie: one peece was raigned vpon, & the peece whervpon it rayned not, withered.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the chyldren of your father, which is in heauen. For he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euyll, and on the good, and sendeth rayne on the iust, and on the vniust.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 God geue thee of the deawe of heauen, and of the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of corne and wine.
  • Gen 27:39 : 39 Then Isahac his father aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: beholde, thy dwellyng place shalbe the fatnesse of the earth, and of the deawe of heauen from aboue.
  • Deut 33:13 : 13 And of Ioseph he sayde: Blessed of the Lorde is his lande for the fruites of heauen, through the deawe & springes that lye beneath,
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel then shall dwell in safetie and alone, and the fountayne of Iacob shalbe vpon a lande of corne and wine, and his heauens shall drop the deawe.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Is it not nowe wheate hearuest? I will call vnto the Lorde, & he shal sende thunder & rayne, that ye may perceaue and see howe that your wickednes is great which ye haue done in the sight of the Lord in asking you a king. 18 And so Samuel called vnto the Lord, and the Lorde sent thunder and rayne the same day: And all the people feared the Lord and Samuel exceedingly.
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 Ye mountaynes of Gilboa, vpon you be neither deawe nor raine, nor fieldes of offeringes: For there the shield of the mightie is cast downe, the shielde of Saul, as though he had not ben annoynted with oyle.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elias ye Thesbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, sayde vnto Ahab: As the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, before whom I stande, there shalbe neither deawe nor rayne these yeres, but according to my worde.
  • Job 5:9-9 : 9 Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable, and maruels without number. 10 He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
  • Job 29:19 : 19 For my roote was spread out by the waterside: and the deawe lay vpon my corne.
  • Job 38:8 : 8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou visitest the earth, and thou makest it ouerflowne, thou enrichest it greatly: the riuer of God is full of water, thou preparest their corne, for so thou ordaynest it. 10 Thou waterest her forowes, thou breakest downe her hillockes: thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne, and blessest the increase of it.

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    36 Who hath put wysdome in the reynes? or who hath geuen the heart vnderstanding?

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    33 Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth?

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    8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe?

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