Job 38:27
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New International Version (©2011)
to satisfy a desolate wasteland and make it sprout with grass?

New Living Translation (©2007)
Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?

English Standard Version (©2001)
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
to satisfy the parched wasteland and cause the grass to sprout?

International Standard Version (©2012)
to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation?

NET Bible (©2006)
to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
to saturate the desolate wasteland in order to make it sprout with grass?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender grass to spring forth?

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

Darby Bible Translation
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?

English Revised Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Webster's Bible Translation
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

World English Bible
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Young's Literal Translation
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he can do, therefore he ought not to oppose the ways of Providence. See the all-sufficiency of the Divine Providence; it has wherewithal to satisfy the desire of every living thing. And he that takes care of the young ravens, certainly will not be wanting to his people. This being but one instance of the Divine compassion out of many, gives us occasion to think how much good our God does, every day, beyond what we are aware of. Every view we take of his infinite perfections, should remind us of his right to our love, the evil of sinning against him, and our need of his mercy and salvation.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - To satisfy the desolate and waste ground. Parched ground seems to cry aloud for water, and so to make a piteous appeal to Heaven. Perhaps rain is not wholly wasted, even on the bare sands of the Sahara, or the rugged rocks of Tierra del Fuego. It may have uses which are beyond our cognizance. And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Where the rain produces herbage, it is certainly of use, for wherever there is herbage there are always insects, whose enjoyment of life has every appearance of being intense.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground,.... Which is exceeding desolate, and therefore two such words are used to express it; which is so dry and thirsty that it is one of the four things that say not it is enough, Proverbs 30:16; and yet God can and does give it rain to its full satisfaction, Psalm 104:13; so the Lord satisfies souls, comparable to dry and thirsty ground, by his word and ordinances, with the goodness and fatness of his house; see Psalm 63:1;

and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? grass for the cattle, and herb for the service of men, Psalm 104:14; of like use is the word in a spiritual sense for the budding and increase of the graces of the Spirit in the Lord's people; see Deuteronomy 32:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27. As though the desolate ground thirsted for God's showers. Personification. The beauty imparted to the uninhabited desert pleases God, for whom primarily all things exist, and He has ulterior designs in it.

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God Challenges Job
…26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew? …

Job 37:13 He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.
Psalm 65:12 The grasslands of the wilderness overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness.
Psalm 104:13 He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work.
Psalm 104:14 He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate-- bringing forth food from the earth:
Psalm 107:35 He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs;
Psalm 147:8 He covers the sky with clouds; he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills.