Job 38:27 BSB — MannaFest

Job 38:27

to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

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Commentary

1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX (604)

That it should fill the pathless and desolate land, and should produce green herbs. For the Gentile world, to which a way was not open for the word of God, was a long while pathless. For on the coming of our Redeemer it so received the calling of grace, as that there had not been in it before the way of Prophecy. It is also rightly called desolate; namely, as being destitute of either the wisdom of counsel, or of the fruit of good works.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

God can make the earth fruitful without any art or pains of ours, Gen. ii. When there was not a man to till the ground, yet there went up a mist and watered it. But we cannot make it fruitful without God; it is he that gives the increase. [2.] Where there is no man to be provided for nor to take the benefit of the fruits that are produced.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground - As if it lifted an imploring voice to God, and he sent down the rain to satisfy it. The desert is thus like a thirsty pilgrim. It is parched, and thirsty, and sad, and it appeals to God, and he meets its needs, and satisfies it. Or to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth - In the desert. There God works alone. No man is there to cultivate the extended wilds, and yet an unseen agency is going forward.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ	le.has.Bi.a'	to satisfy	H7646 →
שֹׁ֭אָה	Sho.'ah	devastation	H7722 →
וּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה	u.me.sho.'Ah	and desolation	H4875 →
וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ	u.le.hatz.Mi.ach	and to cause to sprout	H6779 →
מֹ֣צָא	Mo.tza'	a going forth of	H4161 →
דֶֽשֶׁא׃	De.she'	vegetation	H1877 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 107:35
He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
leads to
- Psalms 114:8
  who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
- Isaiah 35:6–7
  Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 41:17–19
  The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
- Isaiah 44:3–5
  For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
Through
Psalms 104:14
He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
leads to
- Psalms 136:25
  He gives food to every creature. His loving devotion endures forever.
- Psalms 147:8–9
  who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
- Job 28:5
  Food may come from the earth, but from below it is transformed as by fire.
- Psalms 145:15–16
  The eyes of all look to You, and You give them their food in season.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Job