job 38:27 to satisfy the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth

Job 38:27

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— To satisfy the waste and desolate land And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground]; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the sprout of the grass to spring forth?
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— That it should fill the desert and desolate land, and should bring forth green grass?
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— To fulfil the wilde and waste place, and to cause the bud of the herbe to spring forth?
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— To satisfie the desolate and waste [ground], and to cause the bud of the tender herbe to spring forth.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— To saturate every thicket, and cause the tender grass to spring up?
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— and cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

To satisfy 7646

{7646} Prime
שָׂבַע
saba`
{saw-bah'}

A primitive root; to sate, that is, fill to satisfaction (literally or figuratively).

z8687

<8687> Grammar

Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 1162

the desolate 7722

{7722} Prime
שׁוֹא
show'
{sho}

From an unused root meaning to rush over; a tempest; by implication devastation.

and waste 4875

{4875} Prime
מְשׁוֹאָה
m@show'ah
{meh-o-aw'}

From the same as H7722; (a) ruin, abstractly (the act) or concretely (the wreck).

[ground]; and to cause the bud 4161

{4161} Prime
מוֹצָא
mowtsa'
{mo-tsaw'}

From H3318; a going forth, that is, (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence a source or product; specifically dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass).

of the tender herb 1877

{1877} Prime
דֶּשֶׁא
deshe'
{deh'-sheh}

From H1876; a sprout; by analogy grass.

to spring forth? 6779

{6779} Prime
צָמַח
tsamach
{tsaw-makh'}

A primitive root; to sprout (transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively).

z8687

<8687> Grammar

Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Infinitive (See H8812)
Count - 1162

See commentary on Job 38:19-38.

Job 38:27

_ _ As though the desolate ground thirsted for God’s showers. Personification. The beauty imparted to the uninhabited desert pleases God, for whom primarily all things exist, and He has ulterior designs in it.

See commentary on Job 38:25-41.

Job 38:27

To bring forth — Hitherto God has put such questions to Job, as were proper to convince him of his ignorance. Now he comes to convince him of his impotence. As it is but little that he can know, and therefore he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels, so it is but little he can do; and therefore he ought not to oppose Divine providence.

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