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Job 28:26
26He made a command for the rain to decide where it should fall. He chose where storms should go and make thunder.
Job 28:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
- New International Version (NIV)when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,
- English Standard Version (ESV)when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
- New King James Version (NKJV)When He made a law for the rain, And a path for the thunderbolt,
Context of Job 28:26
24He can see to the ends of the earth. He knows what happens everywhere in the world. 25He decided how strong the wind must be. He decided the size of the seas. He 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. 28God said this to us humans: “If you want to be wise, learn to respect the Lord with fear. If you want to understand things properly, turn away from evil acts.” ’
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בַּעֲשֹׂת֣וֹ לַמָּטָ֣ר חֹ֑ק וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 28:26
- Job 36:26Yes, God is very great! We cannot know him completely. Nobody can count the number of his years!
- Job 38:25I make a path for the storms to travel along. I tell the thunder and the strong rain which way to go.
- Psalms 148:8Praise him, fire and hail, snow and clouds. Praise him, wind and storm, as you obey his commands.
- Jeremiah 14:22The idols of other nations are useless. None of them can cause rain to fall. And the sky itself does not make rain. No, it is you, Lord, our God, who sends rain. You alone do all these things, so we trust you to help us.’
- Amos 4:7‘Three months before your food was ready to pick, I did not send rain. So all the food became too dry. Sometimes I sent rain to one city, but I did not send it to other cities. I sent rain to one person's land, but I did not send it to another person's land. So that other person's land became too dry.
- Zechariah 10:1Ask the Lord for rain in spring. It is the Lord who makes the clouds and the storms. He gives the rain to men. He gives the plants of the field to everyone.
- Job 37:3He sends lightning across the whole sky. Its light reaches everywhere on the earth.
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the Lord shouts over the water. The God of glory makes the noise of thunder. The Lord appears over the great sea.
Commentaries on Job 28:26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 26When he made a decree for the rain - When he determined how that should be generated, viz., By the heat of the sun evaporation is produced: the particles of vapor being lighter than the air on the surface, ascend into the atmosphere, till they come to a region where the air is of their own density; there they are formed into thin clouds, and become suspended. When, by the sudden passages of lightning, or by winds strongly agitating these clouds, the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26When he made a decree for the rain - A statute or law (חק chôq ) by which the rain is regulated. It is not sent by chance or hap-hazard. It is under the operation of regular and settled laws. We cannot suppose that those laws were understood in the time of Job, but the fact might be understood that the rain was regulated by laws, and that fact would show that God was qualified to impart wisdom. His kingdom was a kingdom of settled law and not of chance…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. 2626. The decree regulating at what time and place, and in what quantity, the rain should fall. a way--through the parted clouds (Job 38:25; Zec 10:1).Read the comment
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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
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