Key Verse Spotlight
Job 38:28 - Meaning and Application
Understand how this verse speaks to what you're facing and how to apply it today
Translation: King James Version
" Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? "
Job 38:28
Verse in Context
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26 To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
27 To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
29 Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?
30 The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
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Job 38:1
"Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,"
Job 38:2
"Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?"
Job 38:3
"Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me."
Job 38:4
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
Job 38:5
"Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?"
Job 38:6
"Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;"
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