Job 28:25
When he imparted weight unto the wind; and [when] the waters he established by measure;
Leeser Tanakh
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, [whatever is] under the whole heaven doth he see.
26When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of [his] thunders;
Cross References
Job 37:15Dost thou know how God hath imposed [a law] on them, and [how] he hath caused the light of his cloud to shine?
Job 38:5Who fixed her measurements, if thou knowest it? or who stretched the measuring-line over her?
Isaiah 40:12Who hath measured in the hollow of his hand the waters, and meted out the heavens with the span, and comprised in a measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the scale-beam the mountains, and the hills in balances?
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 →