Job 28:26
When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
In Context
25Making, for the wind, a weight, and, the waters, he proved by measure,
27Then, saw he it, and declared it, He settled it, yea also he searched it out;
Cross References
Job 36:27For he draweth up drops of water, They trickle as rain through his mist;
Job 36:32Upon both hands, he putteth a covering of lightning, and layeth command upon it against an assailant:
Job 37:3Under the whole heavens, he letteth it loose, His lightning also, unto the wings of the earth;
Job 37:11Also, with moisture, burdeneth he the thick cloud, He disperseth his lightning-cloud;
Job 38:27To satisfy the wild and the wilderness, to cause to spring forth the meadow of young grass?
Psalms 135:7Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth,—Lightnings for the rain, hath he made, bringing forth 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 →