Job 28:25
to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole heaven,
26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
Cross References
Job 37:15Do thou know how God lays [his charge] upon them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?
Job 38:5Who determined the measures of it, if thou know? Or who stretched the line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Matthew Henry on Job 28:21-28
The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. ( b. c. 1520.) 20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. 22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears. 23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven; 25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the… Read the whole commentary →