Ayub 38:27

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

untuk mengenyangkan gurun dan belantara, dan menumbuhkan pucuk-pucuk rumput muda?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
untuk mengenyangkan gurun dan belantara, dan menumbuhkan pucuk-pucuk rumput muda?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
hendak mengenyangkan tempat-tempat tanah tandus, dan menumbuhkan pucuk-pucuk rumput yang berasing.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, ²⁶ To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth? ²⁷ To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth. ²⁸ Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe? ²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre? ³⁰ That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe. ³¹ Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes? ³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth? ³⁴ Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 25:24
Therefore when her tyme was come to be deliuered, behold, there were two twynnes in her wombe.

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.