Job 28:25
Who made a weight for the winds and weighed the waters by measure.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.
26When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.
Cross References
Job 37:15Dost thou know when God commanded the rains, to shew his light of his clouds?
Job 38:5Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, 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 →