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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    29Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

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  • Job 38:24-27
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    24By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

    25Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

    26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

    27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

  • Job 36:27-29
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    27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,

    28Which the skies pour down and which drop on man abundantly.

    29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

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

    37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

    38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

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

    22Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

  • 22Are 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.

  • 4Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

  • Job 38:33-34
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

    34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

  • 20By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.

  • 6For he says to the snow, 'Fall on the earth;' likewise to the shower of rain, and to the showers of his mighty rain.

  • 10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

  • 16"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • 8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.

  • Job 37:15-18
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    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

    17You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

    18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

  • 7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • 10For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

  • Job 37:10-11
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    10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

    11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

  • 16when 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 lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • 14Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field? [or] shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up?

  • 1Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

  • 8"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

  • 12"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

  • 4To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came forth from you?

  • 2My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

  • 13when 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.

  • 26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

  • Job 38:18-19
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    18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

    19"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • 2Can you number the months that they fulfill? Or do you know the time when they give birth?

  • 4Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'

  • 13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.

  • 3He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind.

  • 6but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

  • 13Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?

  • 8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

  • 13Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?