Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
In Context
25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
27then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yes, and searched it out.
Cross References
Job 36:27For he draws up the drops of water, which distill in rain from his vapor,
Job 36:32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
Job 37:3He sends it out under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.
Job 38:27to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, to cause the tender grass to grow?
Psalms 135:7He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightnings with the rain. He brings 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 →