Job 28:26
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,”
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BSBPD
“when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 28:26 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 36:26Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
- Job 36:27For He draws up drops of water which distill the rain from the mist,
- Job 36:29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
- Job 36:32He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
- Job 37:2Listen closely to the thunder of His voice and the rumbling that comes from His mouth.
- Job 37:3He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- Job 37:4Then there comes a roaring sound; He thunders with His majestic voice. He does not restrain the lightning when His voice resounds.
- Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- Job 38:25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- Job 38:27to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- Psalms 29:3The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
- 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.
- Psalms 148:8lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
- 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.
- 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.
- Zechariah 10:1Ask the LORD for rain in springtime;the LORD makes the storm clouds,and He will give everyone showers of rainand crops in the field.
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