Job 28:25
all that he has made; 1 The weight of the winds, the measures of the water. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
In Context
24For he surveys the whole earth under heaven, 1 Knowing the things in the earth:
26When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, 1 And made a way for the pealing of the thunder. 1
Cross References
Job 37:15We know that God has disposed his works, 1 Having made light out of darkness. 1
Job 38:5Who set the measures of it, if thou knowest? 1 Or who stretched a line upon it? 1
Isaiah 40:12Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests 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 →