Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
New American Standard Bible
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Holman Bible
Who fathered the drops of dew?
International Standard Version
"Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?
A Conservative Version
Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
American Standard Version
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Bible in Basic English
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Darby Translation
Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew?
King James 2000
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?
Modern King James verseion
Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
NET Bible
Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
New Heart English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
The Emphasized Bible
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Webster
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
World English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Youngs Literal Translation
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:28
Prayers for Job 38:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
27
To satisfy the barren and desolate ground
And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
“Out of whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the idols of the nations who can send rain?
Or can the heavens [of their own will] give showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we will wait and hope [confidently] in You,
For You are the one who has made all these things [the heavens and the rain].
Psalm 147:8
Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Genesis 27:28
Now may God give you of the dew of heaven [to water your land],
And of the fatness (fertility) of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and
Genesis 27:39
Then Isaac his father answered and [prophesied and] said to him,
And away from the dew of heaven above;
Deuteronomy 33:13
And of
With the precious things of heaven, with the dew,
And from the deep water that lies beneath,
Deuteronomy 33:28
“So Israel dwells in safety and security,
The fountain of Jacob alone and secluded,
In a land of grain and new wine;
His heavens also drop down dew.
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Is it not [the beginning of the] wheat harvest today? I will call to the Lord and He will send thunder and rain; then you will know [without any doubt], and see that your evil which you have done is great in the sight of the Lord by asking for yourselves a king.”
2 Samuel 1:21
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Let not dew or rain be upon you, nor fields with offerings;
For there the shield of the mighty was defiled,
The shield of Saul, [dry, cracked] not
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Job 5:9-10
Who does great and unsearchable things,
Marvelous things without number.
Job 29:19
‘My root is spread out and open to the waters,
And the dew lies all night upon my branch.
Job 38:8
“Or who enclosed the sea with doors
When it burst forth and went out of the womb;
Psalm 65:9-10
You visit the earth and make it overflow [with water];
You greatly enrich it;
The stream of God is full of water;
You provide their grain, when You have prepared the earth.
Proverbs 3:20
By His knowledge the deeps were broken up
And the clouds drip with dew.
Jeremiah 5:24
‘They do not say in their heart,
“Let us now fear and worship the Lord our God [with profound awe and reverence],
Who gives rain in its season,
Both the autumn and the spring rain,
Who keeps for us
The appointed weeks of the harvest.”
Jeremiah 10:13
When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of
And He causes the clouds and the mist to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain,
And brings out the wind from His treasuries and from His storehouses.
Hosea 14:5
I shall be like the dew to Israel;
He will blossom like the lily,
And he will take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Joel 2:23
So rejoice, O children of Zion,
And delight in the Lord, your God;
For He has given you the early [autumn] rain in vindication
And He has poured down the rain for you,
The early [autumn] rain and the late [spring] rain, as before.
Amos 4:7
“Furthermore, I withheld the rain from you
When there were still three months until the harvest.
Then I would send rain on one city,
And on another city I would not send rain;
One piece of ground was rained on,
While the part not rained on would dry up.
Matthew 5:45