Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 38:27
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground – As if it lifted an imploring voice to God, and he sent down the rain to satisfy it. The desert is thus like a thirsty pilgrim. It is parched, and thirsty, and sad, and it appeals to God, and he meets its needs, and satisfies it.
Or to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth – In the desert. There God works alone. No man is there to cultivate the extended wilds, and yet an unseen agency is going forward. The grass springs up; the bud opens; the leaf expands; the flowers breathe forth their fragrance as if they were under the most careful cultivation. All this must be the work of God, since it cannot even be pretended that man is there to produce these effects. Perhaps one would be more deeply impressed with a sense of the presence of God in the pathless desert, or on the boundless prairie, where no man is, than in the most splendid park, or the most tastefully cultivated garden which man could make. In the one case, the hand of God alone is seen; in the other, we are constantly admiring the skill of man.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 27. To satisfy the desolate and waste] The thunder cloud not only explodes over inhabited countries, that the air may be purified and the rain sent down to fertilize the earth, but it is conducted over deserts where there is no human inhabitant; and this to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth: for there are beasts, fowls, and insects, that inhabit the desert and the wilderness, and must be nourished by the productions of the ground. Every tribe of animals was made by the hand of God, and even the lowest of them is supported by his kind providence.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
To satisfy, by raining, not sparingly, but liberally and abundantly upon it.
To cause the bud of the tender herb to springforth; there being many excellent and useful herbs found in desert places, which otherwise would be utterly neglected and despised.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
27. As though the desolateground thirsted for God’s showers. Personification. The beautyimparted to the uninhabited desert pleases God, for whom primarilyall things exist, and He has ulterior designs in it.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground],…. Which is exceeding desolate, and therefore two such words are used to express it; which is so dry and thirsty that it is one of the four things that say not it is enough, Pr 30:16; and yet God can and does give it rain to its full satisfaction, Ps 104:13; so the Lord satisfies souls, comparable to dry and thirsty ground, by his word and ordinances, with the goodness and fatness of his house; see Ps 63:1;
and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? grass for the cattle, and herb for the service of men, Ps 104:14; of like use is the word in a spiritual sense for the budding and increase of the graces of the Spirit in the Lord’s people; see De 32:2.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
27. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground As if it lifted an imploring voice to God, and he sent down the rain to satisfy it. The desert is thus like a thirsty pilgrim. (Barnes.)
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 38:27 To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Ver. 27. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground ] The waste and waste ground, saith Broughton elegantly; and the Hebrew sounds alike.
And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Reciprocal: Job 36:31 – he giveth Job 37:13 – for his Psa 65:12 – drop Psa 145:16 – openest