Job 28:26

What does Job 28:26 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 28:26 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

Context

v.25To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

v.26This passage

v.27Then did he see it, and declare it; He established it, yea, and searched it out.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 29:3

    The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: The God of glory thundereth, Even Jehovah upon many waters.

  • Job 37:3

    He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

  • Job 36:32

    He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

  • Amos 4:7

    And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered.

  • Job 38:27

    To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

  • Zechariah 10:1

    Ask ye of Jehovah rain in the time of the latter rain, even of Jehovah that maketh lightnings; and he will give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.

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