Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth?
New American Standard Bible
And to make the
King James Version
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Holman Bible
and cause the grass to sprout?
International Standard Version
to satisfy a desolate and devastated desert, causing it to sprout vegetation?
A Conservative Version
to satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
American Standard Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground , And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Amplified
To satisfy the barren and desolate ground
And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
Bible in Basic English
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
Darby Translation
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
Julia Smith Translation
To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass?
King James 2000
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender grass to spring forth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause [the ground] to put forth [the] rising of grass?
Modern King James verseion
to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth?
NET Bible
to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
New Heart English Bible
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
The Emphasized Bible
To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
Webster
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
World English Bible
to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Youngs Literal Translation
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
Interlinear
Mowtsa'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
26 that it watereth and moistureth the dry and barren ground: 27 to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth? 28 Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Cross References
Psalm 104:14
Thou bringest forth grass for the cattle, and green herbs for the service of men.
Psalm 107:35
Again, he maketh the wilderness a standing water, and watersprings of a dry ground.