Job 38:28-29 Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?… In the 38th chapter of that inspired drama the Book of Job, God says to the inspired dramatist, with ecstatic interrogation, "The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?" God there asks Job if he knows the parentage of the frost. He inquires about its pedigree. He suggests that Job study up the frost's genealogical line. A minute before God had asked about the parentage of a raindrop in words that years ago gave me a suggestive text for a sermon: "Hath the rain a father?" But now the Lord Almighty is catechising Job about the frost. He practically says, "Do you know its father? Do you know its mother In what cradle of the leaves did the wind reek it? 'The hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?'" He is a stupid Christian who thinks so much of the printed and bound Bible that he neglects the Old Testament of the fields, nor reads the wisdom and kindness and beauty of God written in blossoms on the orchard, in sparkles on the lake, in stars on the sky, in frost on the meadows. (T. De Witt Talmage.) Parallel Verses KJV: Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?WEB: Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? |
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