Job 28:26
When he prescribed a law to the rain, And a path to the thunder-flash,—
Noyes 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 he gave the winds their weight, And meted out the waters by measure;
27Then did he see it, and make it known; He established it, and searched it out.
Cross References
Job 36:27Lo! he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil rain from his vapor;
Job 36:32His hands he covereth with lightning; He giveth it commandment against an enemy.
Job 37:3He directeth it under the whole heaven, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11Yea, with moisture he burdeneth the clouds; He spreadeth abroad his lightning-clouds.
Job 38:27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, And cause the tender herb to spring forth?
Psalms 135:7He causeth the clouds to ascend from the ends of the earth; He maketh lightnings for the rain; He bringeth the wind from his store-houses.
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 →