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Job_38:28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Ver. 28. Hath the rain a father?] Subaudi, praeter me? saith Vatablus. Hath it any father but me? Can any of the heathen deities give rain? Or can the heavens give showers? "Art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things," Jer_14:22.
Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?] Those round orient pearls, that, falling from heaven in a clear night, do sweetly refresh whatsoever groweth in fields and meadows. The natural causes hereof and of rain are known, but we must rise higher to God, the first Author and Father of these and other things, before and after mentioned, who bringeth them out of his treasuries, and doth wonderfully both make and manage them. It is remarkable that Christ saith, Hos_14:5, "I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily," &c. {See Trapp on "Hos_14:5"} Christ is unto them as a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest, Isa_18:4 making their hearts to be as so many watered gardens, Jer_31:12.