Job 28:25
In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, he seeth under the whole heaven.
26In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:
Cross References
Job 37:15Dost thou know how God hath disposed them, and how he causeth the lightning of his cloud to flash?
Job 38:5Who set the measures thereof if thou knowest? or who stretched a line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with [his] span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
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 →