Job 38:28

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
  • Ps 147:8 : 8 who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
  • Prov 3:20 : 20 By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
  • Jer 5:24 : 24 Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear Yahweh our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
  • Jer 10:13 : 13 when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
  • Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
  • Joel 2:23 : 23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 "I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.
  • Matt 5:45 : 45 that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
  • Gen 27:28 : 28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
  • Gen 27:39 : 39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
  • Deut 33:13 : 13 Of Joseph he said, "His land is blessed by Yahweh, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
  • Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
  • 1 Sam 12:17-18 : 17 Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to Yahweh, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for a king." 18 So Samuel called to Yahweh; and Yahweh sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared Yahweh and Samuel.
  • 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings; For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
  • Job 5:9-9 : 9 who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number; 10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
  • Job 29:19 : 19 My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
  • Job 38:8 : 8 "Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
  • Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop.

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