Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers 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?
The Emphasized Bible
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten 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 waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to spring forth? 28 Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew? 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things."
Psalm 147:8
who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass grow on the mountains.
Genesis 27:28
God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27:39
Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
Deuteronomy 33:13
Of Joseph he said, "His land is blessed by the LORD, for the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, for the deep that couches beneath,
Deuteronomy 33:28
Israel dwells in safety; the fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine. Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Isn't it wheat harvest today? I will call to the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain; and you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for a king."
2 Samuel 1:21
You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew nor rain on you, nor fields of offerings. For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away. The shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except by my word."
Job 5:9-10
who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
Job 29:19
My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.
Job 38:8
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,
Psalm 65:9-10
You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
Proverbs 3:20
By his knowledge, the depths were broken up, and the skies drop down the dew.
Jeremiah 5:24
Neither do they say in their heart, 'Let us now fear the LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.'
Jeremiah 10:13
when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.
Hosea 14:5
I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.
Joel 2:23
"Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
Amos 4:7
"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it did not rain withered.
Matthew 5:45
that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.