Job 38:28
Who is the father of rain? or who begot the drops of dew?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Quis est pluviæ pater ? vel quis genuit stillas roris ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- τίς ἐστιν ὑετοῦ πατήρ; τίς δέ ἐστιν ὁ τετοκὼς βώλους δρόσου;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- הֲיֵשׁ לַמָּטָ֥ר אָ֑ב א֥וֹ מִי ה֝וֹלִ֗יד אֶגְלֵי טָֽל
The Fathers on this verse
Theodoret The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret, The Letter of Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia, to Paulinus, Bishop of Tyre
“If He had been from Him or of Him, as a portion of Him, or by an emanation of His substance, it could not be said that He was created or established; and of this you, my lord, are certainly not ignorant. For that which is of the unbegotten could not be said to have been created or founded, either by Him or by another, since it is unbegotten from the beginning. But if the fact of His being called the begotten gives any ground for the belief that, having come into being of the Father’s substance, He also has from the Father likeness of nature, we reply that it is not of Him alone that the Scriptures have spoken as begotten, but that they also thus speak of those who are entirely dissimilar to Him by nature. …
St Cyril of Jerusalem On the Words, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and of All Things Visible and Invisible
9. Who is the father of the rain? And who hath begotten the drops of dew ? Who condensed the air into clouds, and bade them carry the waters of the rain, now bringing golden-tinted clouds from the north , now changing these into one uniform appearance, and again transforming them into manifold circles and other shapes? Who can number the clouds in wisdom ? Whereof in Job it saith, And He knoweth the separations of the clouds, and hath bent down the heaven to the earth : and, He who numbereth the clouds in wisdom : and, the cloud is not rent under Him . For so many measures of waters lie upon the clouds, yet they are not rent: but come down with all good order upon the earth. …