Ayub 38:28

38:28 Does the rain have a father,

or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

Mazmur 65:10-11

65:10 You saturate ¹  its furrows,

and soak ²  its plowed ground. ³ 

With rain showers you soften its soil, ⁴ 

and make its crops grow. ⁵ 

65:11 You crown the year with your good blessings, ⁶ 

and you leave abundance in your wake. ⁷ 

Yeremia 10:13

10:13 When his voice thunders, ⁸  the heavenly ocean roars.

He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. ⁹ 

He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain.

He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it. ¹⁰ 

[65:10]  ¹ tn Heb “saturating” [the form is an infinitive absolute].

[65:10]  ² tn Heb “flatten, cause to sink.”

[65:10]  ³ tn Heb “trenches,” or “furrows.”

[65:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “soften it,” that is, the earth.

[65:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “its vegetation you bless.” Divine “blessing” often involves endowing an object with special power or capacity.

[65:11]  ⁶ tn Heb “your good,” which refers here to agricultural blessings.

[65:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “and your paths drip with abundance.”

[10:13]  ⁸ tn Heb “At the voice of his giving.” The idiom “to give the voice” is often used for thunder (cf. BDB 679 s.v. נָתַן Qal.1.x).

[10:13]  ⁹ tn Heb “from the ends of the earth.”

[10:13]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “he brings out the winds from his storehouses.”