Job 38:27

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, Proverbs 30:16 ; and yet God can and does give it rain to its full satisfaction, Psalm 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 Psalm 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, Psalm 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 Deuteronomy 32:2 .