the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Job 38:26
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Who makes the rain fall on barren land, in a desert where no one lives?
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
To cause it to rain on a land where there is not a man; On the wilderness, wherein there is not man;
Who waters the land where no one lives, the desert that has no one in it?
to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a desert where there are no human beings,
To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is]; [on] the wilderness in which [there is] no man;
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;
To bring rain on the uninhabited land, And on the desert where no man lives,
to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man,
and weie of the thundur sownynge? That it schulde reyne on the erthe with out man in desert, where noon of deedli men dwellith?
to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
on empty deserts where no one lives?
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;
causing it to rain where no one is, in a desert without anyone there,
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no one is; on the wilderness wherein there is not a man;
Who makes it rain even in desert places where no one lives?
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is, on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
To cause it to raine on the earth, where no man is: on the wildernesse wherein there is no man?
Who brings rain on the land without people, on a desert without a man in it,
to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life,
To cause it to raine on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernes where there is no man?
Who causes it to rain on a land where no man is, in the wilderness where there is no inhabitant,
Who makes rain fall where no one lives?
To give rain over the no-man's land, the desert, where no son of earth is;
That it should rain on the earth without man in the wilderness, where no mortal dwelleth:
to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;
To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?
to rain upon the land where there is no man, the wilderness, where there is not a man in it; so as to feed the untrodden and uninhabited land,
to bring rain on an uninhabited land,on a desert with no human life,
To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;
to bring rain on a land where no one lives, a desert where no humans live,
to make it rain on the earth where no man is , a wilderness and no man in it;
To cause [it] to rain on a land -- no man, A wilderness -- no man in it.
yt it watereth & moystureth ye drye & baren grounde:
To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a person in it,
To cause it to rain on a land where there is no one, A wilderness in which there is no man;
To bring rain on a land without people, On a desert without a man in it,
To bring rain on a land without people,On a desert without a man in it,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
To cause: It is well known that rain falls copiously in thunder storms. The flash is first seen, the clap is next heard, and last the rain descends; though in fact they all take place at the same time. The lightning traverses all space in no perceivable succession of time. Sound is propagated at the rate of 1,142 feet in a second. Rain travels still more slowly, and will be seen sooner or later according to the weight of the drops, and the distance of the cloud. Now as water is composed of two elastic airs or gases, called oxygen and hydrogen, in the proportion of 88+ of the former and 11, 3/4 of the latter in 100 parts, the electric spark, or matter of lightning, passing through the atmosphere, ignites and decomposes those gases, which explode; and the water falls down in the form of rain. This explosion, as well as the rushing in of the circumambient air to restore the equilibrium, will account for the clap and peal; and thus by the lightning of thunder God causes it to rain on the earth.
on the wilderness: Psalms 104:10-14, Psalms 107:35, Psalms 147:8, Psalms 147:9, Isaiah 35:1, Isaiah 35:2, Isaiah 41:18, Isaiah 41:19, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 43:20, Jeremiah 14:22, Hebrews 6:7, Hebrews 6:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:5 - had not Job 5:10 - fields Job 36:31 - he giveth Job 37:13 - for his Psalms 65:12 - drop Psalms 135:7 - he maketh lightnings Proverbs 3:20 - the clouds Acts 14:17 - and gave
Cross-References
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord .
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
And in process of time the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.
So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel.
And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in ward, and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is]; [on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man. Which is uninhabited by men, being so dry and barren; where there is no man to cultivate and water it, as gardens are; and where is no man to receive any advantage by the rain that comes upon it; and yet the Lord sends it for the use of animals that dwell there; which shows his care and providence with respect even to the wild beasts of the earth. This may be an emblem of the rain of the Gospel upon the Gentile world, comparable to a wilderness; see Isaiah 35:1.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is - This is designed to heighten the conception of the power of God. It could not be pretended that this was done by man, for the rain was caused to fall in the desolate regions where no one dwelt. In the lonely desert, in the wastes remote from the dwellings of people, the rain is sent down, evidently by the providential care of God, and far beyond the reach of the agency of man. There is very great beauty in this whole description of God as superintending the falling rain far away from the homes of people, and in those lonely wastes pouring down the waters, that the tender herb may spring up, and the flowers bloom under his hand. All this may seem to be wasted, but it is not so in the eye of God. Not a drop of rain falls in the sandy desert or on the barren rock, however useless it may seem to be, that is not seen to be of value by God, and that is not designated to accomplish some important purpose there.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 38:26. To cause it to rain on the earth — It is well known that rain falls copiously in thunder-storms. The flash is first seen, the clap is next heard, and last the rain descends. The lightning travels all lengths in no perceivable succession of time. Sound is propagated at the rate of 1142 feet in a second. Rain travels still more slowly, and will be seen sooner or later according to the weight of the drops, and the distance of the cloud from the place of the spectator. Now the flash, the clap, and the rain, take place all in the same moment, but are discernible by us in the succession already mentioned, and for the reasons given above; and more at large in Clarke's note on "Job 36:29", c.
But how are these things formed? The lightning is represented as coming immediately from the hand of God. The clap is the effect of the lightning, which causes a vacuum in that part of the atmosphere through which it passes the air rushing in to restore the equilibrium may cause much of the noise that is heard in the clap. An easy experiment on the airpump illustrates this: Take a glass receiver open at both ends, over one end tie a piece of sheep's bladder wet, and let it stand till thoroughly dry. Then place the open end on the plate of the airpump, and exhaust the air slowly from under it. The bladder soon becomes concave, owing to the pressure of the atmospheric air on it, the supporting air in the receiver being partly thrown out. Carry on the exhaustion, and the air presses at the rate of fifteen pounds on every square inch; see on Job 28:28. The fibres of the bladder, being no longer capable of bearing the pressure of the atmospheric column upon the receiver, are torn to pieces, with a noise equal to the report of a musket, which is occasioned by the air rushing in to restore the equilibrium. Imagine a rapid succession of such experiments, and you have the peal of thunder, the rupture of the first bladder being the clap. But the explosion of the gases (oxygen and hydrogen) of which water is composed will also account for the noise. See below.
But how does the thunder cause rain? By the most accurate and incontestable experiments it is proved that water is a composition of two elastic airs or gases as they are called, oxygen and hydrogen. In 100 parts of water there are 88 1/4 of oxygen, and 11 3/4 of hydrogen. Pass a succession of electric sparks through water by means of a proper apparatus, and the two gases are produced in the proportions mentioned above.
To decompose water by galvanism: - Take a narrow glass tube three or four inches long; fit each end with a cork penetrated by a piece of slender iron wire, and fill the tube with water. Let the ends of the two wires within the tube be distant from each other about three quarters of an inch, and let one be made to communicate with the top, the other with the bottom of a galvanic pile in action. On making this communication, bubbles of air will be formed, and ascend to the top of the tube, the water decreasing as it is decomposed.
The oxygen and hydrogen formed by this experiment may be recomposed into the same weight of water. Take any quantity of the oxygen and hydrogen gases in the proportions already mentioned; ignite them by the electric spark, and they produce a quantity of water equal in weight to the gases employed. Thus, then, we can convert water into air, and reconvert this air into water; and the proportions hold as above. I have repeatedly seen this done, and assisted in doing it, but cannot, in this place, describe every thing in detail.
Now to the purpose of this note: the rain descending after the flash and the peal. The electric spark or matter of lightning, passing through the atmosphere, ignites and decomposes the oxygen and hydrogen, which explode, and the water which was formed of these two falls down in the form of rain. The explosion of the gases, as well as the rushing in of the circumambient air to restore the equilibrium, will account for the clap and peal: as the decomposition and ignition of them will account for the water or rain which is the attendant of a thunder storm. Thus by the lightning of thunder God causes it to rain on the earth. How marvellous and instructive are his ways!
