Job 28:25
He created a counterweight for the winds, and he suspended the waters to measure them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For he beholds the limits of the world, and he looks upon all things that are under heaven.
26At that time, he gave a law to the rain and a path to the resounding storms.
Cross References
Job 37:15Do you know when God ordered the rains, so as to show the light of his clouds?
Job 38:5Who set its measurements, if you know, or who stretched a line over it?
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and who has weighed the heavens with his palm? Who has suspended the mass of the earth with three fingers, and who has weighed the mountains on a balance and the hills on a scale?
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 →