Holy Scripture

Job 38:26

A church father on this verse
“That it should rain upon the earth without man, in the desert, where no mortal dwelleth. To rain upon the earth without man in the desert, is to preach the word of God to the Gentile world. For whilst it retained no worship of the Godhead, and shewed in itself no appearance of good works, it was plainly a desert. And…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

26To 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,

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In context

24And whence proceeds the frost? Or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

25And who prepared a course for the violent rain, And a way for the thunders;

— Job 38:26 —

27And cause it to send forth a crop of green herbs?

28Who is the rain’s father? And who has generated the drops of dew?

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