Devine Scripture

Job 38:28

Job chapter 38 · verse 28 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.27To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

v.28This passage

v.29Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Amos 4:7

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

  • Deuteronomy 33:28

    And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew.

  • 2 Samuel 1:21

    Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

  • 1 Kings 17:1

    And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

  • Deuteronomy 33:13

    And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath,

  • Psalms 65:9

    Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth.