Job 38:28

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

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

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

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

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

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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 38:28 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 27:28May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth— an abundance of grain and new wine.
  2. Genesis 27:39His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
  3. 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,
  4. Deuteronomy 33:28So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
  5. 1 Samuel 12:17Is 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.”
  6. 2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, may you have no dew or rain, no fields yielding offerings of grain. For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
  7. 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!”
  8. Job 5:9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
  9. Job 29:19My roots will spread out to the waters, and the dew will rest nightly on my branches.
  10. Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
  11. Psalms 65:9You attend to the earth and water it; with abundance You enrich it. The streams of God are full of water, for You prepare our grain by providing for the earth.
  12. Psalms 147:8who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.
  13. Proverbs 3:20By His knowledge the watery depths were broken open, and the clouds dripped with dew.
  14. 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.’
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Hosea 14:5I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like the lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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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