Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 38:28
Father — Is there any man that can beget or produce rain at his pleasure?
Father — Is there any man that can beget or produce rain at his pleasure?
Verse Job 38:28. _HATH THE RAIN A FATHER?_] Or, _Who is the father of the_ _rain_? We have seen above one part of the apparatus by which God produces it; other causes have been mentioned on Job 36:27,...
HATH THE RAIN A FATHER? - That is, it is produced by God and not by man. No one among men can claim that he causes it, or can regard it as his offspring. The idea is, that the production of rain is am...
V. THE LORD'S TESTIMONY TO JOB AND CONTROVERSY WITH HIM CHAPTER 38:1-38 _ 1. The Lord speaks to Job (Job 38:1)_ 2. The questions of the Lord (Job 38:4) Job 38:1. The voice of man is hushed; the voi...
THE WONDERS OF THE INANIMATE CREATION. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (contr...
DEW. night mist. See note on Psalms 133:3....
A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky the earth, Job 38:4; the heavens, Job 38:18...
Rain, dew, frost and ice....
_the rain a father_ That is, a human father; does any man, Job perhaps, beget the rain or the drops of dew? They are marvels of God's creative power....
The wonders of the heavens....
_THE SHATTERING OF SILENCE_ VI. THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THE PENITENCE OF JOB (Job 38:1, Job 42:6) A. INTEGRITY, CERTAINTY, AND KNOWLEDGE (Job 38:1, Job 40:2) 1.
_HATH THE RAIN A FATHER? OR WHO HATH BEGOTTEN THE DROPS OF DEW?_ Can any visible origin of rain and dew be assigned by man? Is man their author and creator? Dew is moisture which was suspended in the...
THE FIRST SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (JOB 38:39) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to force fro...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 38 GOD BEGINS HIS SPEECH...
God controls the weather. And he uses the weather for his own purposes. He even waters the grass where nobody lives (verse 27). A man would not choose to water that grass. But God controls the whole w...
הֲ יֵשׁ ־לַ † מָּטָ֥ר אָ֑ב אֹ֥ו...
XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues a voice....
WHAT MAN CANNOT DO Job 38:19 In this chapter a number of nature-pictures pass before us. These include the creation of the earth, Job 38:4; the sea, Job 38:8; light,...
Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challen...
(4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? ...
God Speaks Job Repents I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we covered a lot of territory! 1. We finished with Elihu's speeches to Job and found that, although he was a lot more accurate in what he had to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...
HATH THE RAIN A FATHER?.... None but God; hence the Heathens themselves call God γετιος y, and ομβριος z; see Jeremiah 14:22; he that is our Father in heaven is the Father of rain, and him only; what...
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew? Ver. 28. _Hath the rain a father?_] _Subaudi, praeter me?_ saith Vatablus. Hath it any father but me? Can any of the heathen deities giv...
_Hath the rain a father?_ Is there any man that can beget or produce rain at his pleasure? No; this is my peculiar work. _The hoary frost, who hath gendered it?_ What man can either produce, or doth f...
God's Majesty in the Wonders above the Earth...
Hath the rain a father, as it drops down from the clouds of the sky? OR WHO HATH BEGOTTEN THE DROPS OF DEW, which assemble from the vapor of the atmosphere above, and are therefore also brought into d...
Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the whi...
Job was also ignorant of the origin of rain, dew, and ice. Yes modern man can make ice on. limited scale, but nothing like what is seen in nature. To this man is helpless in the face of drought and. l...
25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he...
To wit, besides me. Is there any man upon earth than can beget or produce rain at his pleasure? No, this is my peculiar work. And therefore seeing thou knowest and canst do nothing as to the governmen...
Job 38:28 Has H3426 rain H4306 father H1 begotten H3205 (H8689) drops H96 dew H2919 Hath the -...
CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Those who try to call God to account, will be called to account. Seeking to establish one's own character and darkening the counse...
Job 38:1. _The whirlwind._ Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in Psal...
_Hath the rain a father?_ THE WEATHER PROVIDER Two ships meet mid-Atlantic. The one is going to Southampton and the other is coming to New York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one ship,...
WHO SENDS THE RAIN? Hath the rain a father? Job 38:28. The words of the text sound as if they were a bit out of a fairy tale. Where but in a fairy tale does one hear of such a thing as the rain hav...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 38:12 The Lord reminds Job that he cannot see fully what the Lord is doing about justice and judgment (see vv. Job 38:13,...
_JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB_ Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thunders...
CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY. EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (ch. 38-41.). It is broken...
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou m...
1 Kings 17:1; 1 Samuel 12:17; 1 Samuel 12:18; 2 Samuel 1:21; Amos 4:7;
GOD SPEAKS TO JOB Job 38:1 _to Job 42:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed on those lines....