Job 28:25

Job 28:25 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
• New International Version (NIV)When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters,
• English Standard Version (ESV)When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,
• New King James Version (NKJV)To establish a weight for the wind, And apportion the waters by measure.

Context of Job 28:25

23Only God knows the way to find wisdom. Only he knows where it is. 24He can see to the ends of the earth. He knows what happens everywhere in the world. He decided how strong the wind must be. He decided the size of the seas. 26He made a command for the rain to decide where it should fall. He chose where storms should go and make thunder. 27Then he thought about wisdom and its value. He prepared it and he tested it.

Job 28:25 word by word

לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּמִדָּֽה׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• To makeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: offerH6213
• the weightמִשְׁקָלmishqâl · weightH4948
• for the windsרוּחַrûach · spirit: breathH7307
• and he weighethתָּכַןtâkan · to measureH8505
• the watersמַיmayim · waterH4325
• by measureמִדָּהmiddâh · measureH4060

Cross-references for Job 28:25

• Psalms 135:7The Lord causes clouds to rise up all over the earth. He sends lightning with the storms of rain. He sends out the wind from its place, so that it blows where he chooses.
• Isaiah 40:12Nobody has done what God has done! He measured all the water of the seas in one hand. He used his hand to measure the whole sky. He carefully weighed the soil of the earth. He carefully weighed the mountains in his scales, and the hills too.

Commentaries on Job 28:25

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25To make the weight for the winds - God has given an atmosphere to the earth, which, possessing a certain degree of gravity perfectly suited to the necessities of all animals, plants, vegetables, and fluids, is the cause in his hand of preserving animal and vegetative life through the creation; for by it the blood circulates in the veins of animals, and the juices in the tubes of vegetables. Without this pressure of the atmosphere, there could be no…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25To make the weight for the winds - That is, to weigh the winds and to measure the waters - things that it would seem most difficult to do. The idea here seems to be, that God had made all things by measure and by rule. Even the winds - so fleeting and imponderable - he had adjusted and balanced in the most exact manner, as if he had “weighed” them when he made them. The air has “weight,” but it is not probable that this fact was known in the time of Job…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-28Verses 20-28 There is a two-fold wisdom; one hid in God, which is secret, and belongs not to us; the other made known by him, and revealed to man. One day's events, and one man's affairs, have such reference to, and so hang one upon another, that He only, to whom all is open, and who sees the whole at one view, can rightly judge of every part. But the knowledge of God's revealed will is within our reach, and will do us good. Let man look upon this as his…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-27When God looks across the entire earth, he sees his wisdom in his creation (28:23). God later showed his wisdom to Job by taking him on a tour of the universe (chapters 38–41).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. God has adjusted the weight of the winds, so seemingly imponderable, lest, if too weighty, or too light, injury should be caused. He measureth out the waters, fixing their bounds, with wisdom as His counsellor (Pr 8:27-31; Is 40:12).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 28:25

• God
• Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena
• Readings, Select
• Wisdom

In the dictionaries

• Bind
• Decree
• Equal
• Fain
• Fine
• Wisdom
• Wise, wisdom
• Baruch, Book of
• Ethics
• Eunice

Commentaries on Job 28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings