Job 38:28
Good News Translation
Does either the rain or the dew have a father?

New Revised Standard Version
“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?

Contemporary English Version
Who is the father of the dew and of the rain?

New American Bible
Has the rain a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?

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Job 38:8 Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:

Job 5:9,10 Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number: . . .

1 Samuel 12:17,18 Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call upon the Lord, and he shall send thunder and rain: and you shall know, and see that you yourselves have done a great evil in the sight of the Lord, in desiring a king over you. . . .

Psalm 65:9,10 Thou hast visited the earth, and hast plentifully watered it; thou hast many ways enriched it. The river of God is filled with water, thou hast prepared their food: for so is its preparation. . . .

Jeremiah 5:24 And they have not said in their heart: Let us fear the Lord our God, who giveth us the early and the latter rain in due season: who preserveth for us the fulness of the yearly harvest.

Jeremiah 10:13 At his voice he giveth a multitude of waters in the heaven, and lifteth up the clouds from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings for rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.

Jeremiah 14:22 Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Joel 2:23 And you, O children of Sion, rejoice, and be joyful in the Lord your God: because he hath given you a teacher of justice, and he will make the early and the latter rain to come down to you as in the beginning.

Amos 4:7 I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon on city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon: and the piece whereupon I rained not, withered.

Matthew 5:45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

dew

Job 29:19 My root is opened beside the waters, and dew shall continue in my harvest.

Genesis 27:28,39 God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine. . . .

Deuteronomy 33:13,28 To Joseph also he said: Of the blessing of the Lord be his land, of the fruits of heaven, and of the dew, and of the deep that lieth beneath. . . .

2 Samuel 1:21 Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.

1 Kings 17:1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 3:20 My son, let not these things depart from thy eyes: keep the law and counsel:

Hosea 14:5 I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

Context
God Challenges Job
27That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass? 28Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?29Out of whose womb came the ice? and the frost from heaven who hath gendered it?…
Cross References
Job 36:27
He lifteth up the drops of rain, and poureth out showers like floods:

Job 36:28
Which flow from the clouds that cover all above.

Psalm 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, and prepareth rain for the earth. Who maketh grass to grow on the mountains, and herbs for the service of men.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Job 38:27
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