Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
In Context
25To make a weight for the wind; yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
27Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out.
Cross References
Job 36:27For he draweth up the drops of water, which distil in rain from his vapour:
Job 36:32He covereth his hands with the lightning; and giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.
Job 37:3He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Job 37:11Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; he spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:
Job 38:27To satisfy the waste and desolate ground; and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Psalms 135:7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth forth 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 →