Job 28:26
When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of [his] thunders;
Leeser Tanakh
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 imparted weight unto the wind; and [when] the waters he established by measure;
27Then did he see her, and make her known; he established her, and also searched her out.
Cross References
Job 36:27For he taketh away drops of water, which are purified into rain in his mist:
Job 36:32[His] hands he covereth with light; and he commandeth it to strike the one who striveth against him.
Job 37:3Under the whole heavens he letteth it loose, and his lightning over the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11Also with moisture he loadeth the cloud; [and] he scattereth the cloud of his lightning;
Job 38:27To satisfy waste and desolate lands; and to promote the growth of the tender grass?
Psalms 135:7He causeth clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with the rain; he bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.
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 →