Job 38:28

In 11 translations

BSB

Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?

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?

ASV

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

LSV

Does the rain have a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

YLT

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

DBY

Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?

DRC

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

GNV

Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the dewe?

JPS

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

LXXE

Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

הֲיֵשׁ־לַמָּטָ֥ר אָ֑ב א֥וֹ מִי־ה֝וֹלִ֗יד אֶגְלֵי־טָֽל׃

LXX-Br

Τίς ἐστιν ὑετοῦ πατήρ; τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ τετοκὼς βώλους δρόσου;

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
• Proverbs 3:20By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
• Jeremiah 10:13When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
• Job 29:19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
• Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
• Job 5:9–10the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.
• Joel 2:23Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
• Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
• 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
• Deuteronomy 33:13Concerning Joseph he said: “May his land be blessed by the LORD with the precious dew from heaven above and the deep waters that lie beneath,
• 1 Samuel 12:17–18Is it not the wheat harvest today? I will call on the LORD to send thunder and rain, so that you will know and see what a great evil you have committed in the sight of the LORD by asking for a king.” So Samuel called…
• Jeremiah 5:24They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
• Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
• Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
• Matthew 5:45that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

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