Job 38:27

King James Version

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Who sends rain to satisfy the parched ground and make the tender grass spring up?

English Revised Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Update Bible Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

New Century Version
Who sends rain to satisfy the empty land so the grass begins to grow?

New English Translation
to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

Webster's Bible Translation
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

World English Bible
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Amplified Bible
To satisfy the barren and desolate ground And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

English Standard Version
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground sprout with grass?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That it schulde fille a lond with out weie and desolat, and schulde brynge forth greene eerbis?

Berean Standard Bible
to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?

Contemporary English Version
Rain that changes barren land to meadows green with grass.

American Standard Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Bible in Basic English
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

Complete Jewish Bible
drenching the waste and desolate [ground], till the tender grass sprouts?

Darby Translation
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?

Easy-to-Read Version
The rain gives that dry empty land all the water it needs, and grass begins to grow.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

King James Version (1611)
To satisfie the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.

New Life Bible
to fill the need of the wasted land, and to make the grass grow?

New Revised Standard
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?

Geneva Bible (1587)
To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?

George Lamsa Translation
To saturate every thicket, and cause the tender grass to spring up?

Good News Translation
Who waters the dry and thirsty land, so that grass springs up?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?

Douay-Rheims Bible
That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?

Revised Standard Version
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

Christian Standard Bible®
to satisfy the parched wastelandand cause the grass to sprout?

Hebrew Names Version
To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, To cause the tender grass to spring forth?

Lexham English Bible
to satisfy desert and wasteland, and to cause the ground to put forth the rising of grass?

Literal Translation
to satisfy the waste and desolation, and to cause the source of grass to sprout?

Young's Literal Translation
To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
to make the grasse growe in places where no body dwelleth, & in the wildernes where no ma remayneth?

New American Standard Bible
To satisfy the waste and desolate land, And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

New King James Version
To satisfy the desolate waste, And cause to spring forth the growth of tender grass?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

Legacy Standard Bible
To satisfy the waste and desolate landAnd to make the growth of grass to sprout?

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 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. ³¹ Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? ³³ Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth? ³⁴ Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Job 36:31 - he giveth Job 37:13 - for his Psalms 65:12 - drop Psalms 145:16 - openest

Cross-References

Genesis 25:24
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground],.... Which is exceeding desolate, and therefore two such words are used to express it; which is so dry and thirsty that it is one of the four things that say not it is enough, Proverbs 30:16; and yet God can and does give it rain to its full satisfaction, Psalms 104:13; so the Lord satisfies souls, comparable to dry and thirsty ground, by his word and ordinances, with the goodness and fatness of his house; see Psalms 63:1;

and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? grass for the cattle, and herb for the service of men, Psalms 104:14; of like use is the word in a spiritual sense for the budding and increase of the graces of the Spirit in the Lord's people; see Deuteronomy 32:2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground - As if it lifted an imploring voice to God, and he sent down the rain to satisfy it. The desert is thus like a thirsty pilgrim. It is parched, and thirsty, and sad, and it appeals to God, and he meets its needs, and satisfies it.

Or to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth - In the desert. There God works alone. No man is there to cultivate the extended wilds, and yet an unseen agency is going forward. The grass springs up; the bud opens; the leaf expands; the flowers breathe forth their fragrance as if they were under the most careful cultivation. All this must be the work of God, since it cannot even be pretended that man is there to produce these effects. Perhaps one would be more deeply impressed with a sense of the presence of God in the pathless desert, or on the boundless prairie, where no man is, than in the most splendid park, or the most tastefully cultivated garden which man could make. In the one case, the hand of God alone is seen; in the other, we are constantly admiring the skill of man.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:27. To satisfy the desolate and waste — The thunder cloud not only explodes over inhabited countries, that the air may be purified and the rain sent down to fertilize the earth, but it is conducted over deserts where there is no human inhabitant; and this to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth: for there are beasts, fowls, and insects, that inhabit the desert and the wilderness, and must be nourished by the productions of the ground. Every tribe of animals was made by the hand of God, and even the lowest of them is supported by his kind providence.