To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
The verse is part of the words God spoke to Job. It belongs to God's poetic account of His mighty works in creation, beautiful in expression like the unwilling prophecy of blessing upon Israel, the vision of the Almighty, the loveliness of Jacob's tents, and the coming of a Star out of Jacob and dominion out of Jacob declaring what God has wrought. It ranks among the earliest poetic utterances known to humanity as well as the most sublime, with a majesty unequaled and unapproached by the loftiest productions of human genius. It was recorded by the shepherd of Midian before the oldest of the world's poets had sung.
It pictures God cleaving a channel for the flooding water and making a way for rain to fall on a land where no man is, on the wilderness wherein there is no man, to satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth. It is one of the many questions God asks about His work in nature that men of the greatest intellect and the most profound learning cannot understand or answer. The question about watering desolate ground and making tender growth sprout was not asked in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited.
It shows that in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings, and that in both nature and divine revelation God has given mysteries to command faith. It teaches that God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and that beyond all searching, inquiring, and learning there still remains infinity.
The verse is part of the words God spoke to Job. It belongs to God's poetic account of His mighty works in creation, beautiful in expression like the unwilling prophecy of blessing upon Israel, the vision of the Almighty, the loveliness of Jacob's tents, and the coming of a Star out of Jacob and dominion out of Jacob declaring what God has wrought. It ranks among the earliest poetic utterances known to humanity as well as the most sublime, with a majesty unequaled and unapproached by the loftiest productions of human genius. It was recorded by the shepherd of Midian before the oldest of the world's poets had sung.
It pictures God cleaving a channel for the flooding water and making a way for rain to fall on a land where no man is, on the wilderness wherein there is no man, to satisfy the waste and desolate ground and to cause the tender grass to spring forth. It is one of the many questions God asks about His work in nature that men of the greatest intellect and the most profound learning cannot understand or answer. The question about watering desolate ground and making tender growth sprout was not asked in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited.
It shows that in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings, and that in both nature and divine revelation God has given mysteries to command faith. It teaches that God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and that beyond all searching, inquiring, and learning there still remains infinity.