Job 28:26
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Majority Standard Bible
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 God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
27then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
Cross References
Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
Job 36:32He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
Job 37:3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
Job 38:27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
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 →