Job 28:26
When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
In Context
25When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;
27Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.
Cross References
Job 36:27For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Job 36:32He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
Job 37:3He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
Job 38:27To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
Psalms 135:7He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
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 →