Job 28:26 when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
when he made a decree for the rain and a path for the thunderstorm,

English Standard Version
when he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

New American Standard Bible
When He set a limit for the rain And a course for the thunderbolt,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
when He established a limit for the rain and a path for the lightning,

International Standard Version
He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms.

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

Young's Literal Translation
In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,

Cross References

Job 28:27
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yes, and searched it out.

Job 37:3
He directs it under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

Job 37:6
For he said to the snow, Be you on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

Job 37:11
Also by watering he wearies the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:

Job 38:25
Who has divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

Job 38:26
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Psalm 135:7
He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain; he brings the wind out of his treasuries.

Proverbs 8:22
The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

28:20-28 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 wisdom, To fear the Lord, and to depart from evil. Let him learn that, and he is learned enough. Where is this wisdom to be found? The treasures of it are hid in Christ, revealed by the word, received by faith, through the Holy Ghost. It will not feed pride or vanity, or amuse our vain curiosity. It teaches and encourages sinners to fear the Lord, and to depart from evil, in the exercise of repentance and faith, without desiring to solve all difficulties about the events of this life.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

26. 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).