Job 28:25
23 But God understands its way, and He knows its place.
24 For He looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens.
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
26 when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
27 then He looked at wisdom and appraised it; He established it and searched it out.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
- KJV
- To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
- WEB
- He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
- ASV
- To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
- DARBY
- In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,
- BLB
- to make for the wind a weight, and He portioned out the waters by measure,
- ÅB
- Da han fastsatte vindens vekt og gav vannet dets mål,
- OTB
- Da Han ga vinden dens vekt,
Og målte vannene med mål, - B1930
- Da han fastsatte vindens vekt og gav vannet dets mål,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 135:7
He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
Read in contextIsaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
Read in contextJob 12:15
If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
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