Where Can Wisdom Be Found?
Job 28:25
In 11 translations
- 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.
- LSV
- To make a weight for the wind, || And He meted out the waters in measure.
- YLT
- To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
- DBY
- In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,
- DRC
- Who made a weight for the winds and weighed the waters by measure.
- GNV
- To make the weight of the windes, and to weigh the waters by measure.
- JPS
- When He maketh a weight for the wind, and meteth out the waters by measure.
- LXXE
- all that he has made; the weight of the winds, the measures of the water.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּמִדָּֽה׃
- LXX-Br
- ἃ ἐποίησεν, ἀνέμων σταθμὸν, ὕδατος μέτρα ὅτε ἐποίησεν·
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Cross-references most cited first
- Psalms 135:7He 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.
- Isaiah 40:12Who 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…
- Job 12:15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
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