The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:27
In 11 translations
- BSB
- to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- KJV
- To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- WEB
- to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
- ASV
- To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
- LSV
- To satisfy a desolate and ruined place, || And to cause to shoot up || The produce of the tender grass?
- YLT
- To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
- DBY
- To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
- DRC
- That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
- GNV
- To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
- JPS
- To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
- LXXE
- and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- לְהַשְׂבִּ֣יעַ שֹׁ֭אָה וּמְשֹׁאָ֑ה וּ֝לְהַצְמִ֗יחַ מֹ֣צָא דֶֽשֶׁא׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
- LXX-Br
- τοῦ χορτάσαι ἄβατον καὶ ἀοίκητον, καὶ τοῦ ἐκβλαστῆσαι ἔξοδον χλόης;
Who and where
◆ Job's Trial
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
Condescension of GodReadings, SelectBaruch, Book ofMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaHerbs, &CJob, Book ofBlessingGod
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 107:35He turns a desert into pools of water and a dry land into flowing springs.
- Psalms 104:14He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:
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