🌪️WEB · Job 38:27

What does Job 38:27 mean?

"to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?"

— Job 38:27 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

25

Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;

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To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

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to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?

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Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

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Out of whose womb came the ice? The gray frost of the sky, who has given birth to it?

30

The waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen.

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