Job 38:28

English Standard Version 2016

“Has the rain a father, or who has begotten the drops of dew?

Cross References

Jeremiah 14:22

Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are you not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for you do all these things.

Psalm 147:8

He covers the heavens with clouds; he prepares rain for the earth; he makes grass grow on the hills.

Matthew 5:45

so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Amos 4:7

“I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would have rain, and the field on which it did not rain would wither;

Joel 2:23

“Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God, for he has given the early rain for your vindication; he has poured down for you abundant rain, the early and the latter rain, as before.

Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;

Jeremiah 10:13

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, and he brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

Jeremiah 5:24

They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.’

Proverbs 3:20

by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.

Job 38:8

“Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb,

Job 29:19

my roots spread out to the waters, with the dew all night on my branches,

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in 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.”

2 Samuel 1:21

“You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.

Deuteronomy 33:28

So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.

Deuteronomy 33:13

And of Joseph he said, “Blessed by the Lord be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,

Genesis 27:39

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

Job 36:27

For he draws up the drops of water; they distill his mist in rain,

Job 36:28

which the skies pour down and drop on mankind abundantly.