Job 38:28 BSB — MannaFest

Job 38:28

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

BSB

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ASV

Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

KJV

Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

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

Who is the father of the rain? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] As if He were saying, Except Myself, Who sprinkle, of My free grace, the barren earth of the human heart with drops of knowledge. For of this rain is said elsewhere, Thou wilt set apart, O God, a voluntary rain for thine inheritance. For God sets apart a voluntary rain for His inheritance, because He grants it to us, not for own deserts, but from the bounty of His own benignity.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Hath the rain a father? - Or, Who is the father of the rain? We have seen above one part of the apparatus by which God produces it; other causes have been mentioned on Job 36:27, etc. The drops of dew? - אגלי egley, the sphericles, the small round drops or globules. Dew is a dense moist vapor, found on the earth in spring and summer mornings, in the form of a mizzling rain. Dr. Hutton defines it, “a thin, light, insensible mist or rain, descending with a slow motion, and falling while the sun is below the horizon.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Can any visible origin of rain and dew be assigned by man? Dew is moisture, which was suspended in the air, but becomes condensed on reaching the--in the night--lower temperature of objects on the earth.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲיֵשׁ־	ha.yesh-	¿ [is] there	H3426 →
לַמָּטָ֥ר	la.ma.Tar	for the rain	H4306 →
אָ֑ב	'Av	a father	H1 →
א֥וֹ	'o	or	H176 →
מִי־	mi-	who?	H4310 →
ה֝וֹלִ֗יד	ho.Lid	does he father	H3205 →
אֶגְלֵי־	'eg.lei-	[the] drops of	H96 →
טָֽל׃	Tal	dew	H2919 →

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
Jeremiah 14:22
Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have…
leads to
- Psalms 135:7
  He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joel 2:23
  Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as…
- Jeremiah 5:24
  They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
- Isaiah 30:23
  Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will…
- Deuteronomy 32:21
  They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will…
Through
Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
leads to
- Genesis 7:11
  In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
- Psalms 65:9–12
  You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
Through
Psalms 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
leads to
- Job 5:10
  He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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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