Job 28:26

In 11 translations

BSB

when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

When he made a decree for the rayne, and a way for the lightening of the thunders,

JPS

When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the storm of thunders;

LXXE

When he made them, thus he saw and numbered them, and made a way for the pealing of the thunder.

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Original-language editions

WLC

בַּעֲשֹׂת֣וֹ לַמָּטָ֣ר חֹ֑ק וְ֝דֶ֗רֶךְ לַחֲזִ֥יז קֹלֽוֹת׃We read one or more vowels in L differently from BHS.

LXX-Br

οὕτως ἰδὼν ἠρίθμησε, καὶ ὁδὸν ἐν τινάγματι φωνάς.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 38:25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
• Job 37:3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
• Zechariah 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime; the LORD makes the storm clouds, and He will give everyone showers of rain and crops in the field.
• Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
• Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
• Amos 4:7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
• Jeremiah 14:22Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.
• Psalms 29:3–10The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters. The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic. The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars;…
• Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
• Job 38:27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
• Job 36:32He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.

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