Job 28:26
In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,
Young's Literal Translation
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 for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
27Then He hath seen and declareth it, He hath prepared it, and also searched it out,
Cross References
Job 36:27When He doth diminish droppings of the waters, They refine rain according to its vapour,
Job 36:32By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,
Job 37:3Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light [is] over the skirts of the earth.
Job 37:11Yea, by filling He doth press out a cloud, Scatter a cloud doth His light.
Job 38:27To satisfy a desolate and waste place, And to cause to shoot up The produce of the tender grass?
Psalms 135:7Causing vapours to ascend from the end of the earth, Lightnings for the rain He hath made, Bringing forth wind from His treasures.
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 →