Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
New American Standard Bible
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Holman Bible
Who fathered the drops of dew?
International Standard Version
"Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?
A Conservative Version
Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
American Standard Version
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Amplified
“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Bible in Basic English
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Darby Translation
Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew?
King James 2000
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?
Modern King James verseion
Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
NET Bible
Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
New Heart English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Webster
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
World English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Youngs Literal Translation
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:28
Prayers for Job 38:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
27 To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass? 28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb, came forth the ice? And, the hoar-frost of the heavens, who hath given it birth?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there, among the vanities of the nations senders of rain? Or can, the heavens themselves, give myriad drops? Art not, thou, he, O Yahweh our God? Therefore will we wait for thee, For, thou, hast made all these.
Psalm 147:8
Who covereth the heavens with clouds, preparing rain for the earth, who causeth the mountains to sprout grass:
Genesis 27:28
Then, may God give thee of the dew of the heavens, And of the fatness of the earth, - And abundance of corn and new wine:
Genesis 27:39
Then answered Isaac his father and said unto him, - Lo! of the fat parts of the earth, shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of the heavens, above;
Deuteronomy 33:13
And of Joseph, he said, Blessed of Yahweh, be his land, - With the precious things of the heavens with the dew, And with the abyss, couching beneath;
Deuteronomy 33:28
Thus hath Israel settled down securely, Alone, the fountain of Jacob, Within a land both of corn and new wine, - His heaven also droppeth down dew.
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Is it not wheat harvest, to-day? I will cry unto Yahweh, that he may give forth thunderings and rain, - know ye then and see, that, your wrong, is great which ye have done in the sight of Yahweh, in asking for yourselves, a king.
2 Samuel 1:21
Ye mountains in Gilboa! Be there neither dew nor rain upon you, nor fields of offerings, - for, there, were cast away, the shields of the mighty, The shield of Saul, unanointed with oil.
1 Kings 17:1
Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain, - save at the bidding of my word.
Job 5:9-10
Who doeth great things, beyond all search, - Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
Job 29:19
My root, is laid open to the waters, and, the dew, shall lodge for the night in my boughs;
Job 38:8
Or who shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Psalm 65:9-10
Thou hast visited the earth, and made it abound, Abundantly, dost thou enrich it - The channel of God, is full of waters, Thou preparest their corn, Yea, thus, dost thou prepare it:
Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge, the resounding deeps were burst open, and, the skies, drop down dew.
Jeremiah 5:24
Neither have they said in their heart, - Let us we pray you, revere Yahweh our God, Who giveth rain, even the early and the latter, in its season, - The appointed weeks of harvest, he reserveth for us.
Jeremiah 10:13
At the voice that he uttered, there was a tumult of waters in the heavens, And he caused vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth, - The lightnings for rain, he made, And brought forth wind out of his treasuries.
Hosea 14:5
I will become as the dew unto Israel, he shall break forth as the lily, - and he shall strike his roots as Lebanon:
Joel 2:23
Ye sons of Zion, then, exult and be glad in Yahweh your God, for he hath given you the seed-rain, in right manner, - Yea he hath caused to descend for you a down-pour, of seed-rain and of the harvest-rain in the first month;
Amos 4:7
Moreover also, I, have withholden from you the abundant rain, when yet there were only three mouths to the harvest, Or I might rain upon one city, and, on another city, might not rain, - One portion, would be rained upon, and, the portion whereupon it should not rain, would be dried up;
Matthew 5:45
That ye may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens: because, his sun, he maketh arise on evil and good, and sendeth rain, on just and unjust.