then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
Job 28:26 - New Revised Standard Version when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the thunderbolt; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When He made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder, American Standard Version (1901) When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder; Common English Bible when he made a decree for the rain, a path for thunderbolts, Catholic Public Domain Version At that time, he gave a law to the rain and a path to the resounding storms. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version When he gave a law for the rain, and a way for the sounding storms. |
then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
Surely God is great, and we do not know him; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.
He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning.
Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it loose, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.
After it his voice roars; he thunders with his majestic voice and he does not restrain the lightnings when his voice is heard.
For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth’; and the shower of rain, his heavy shower of rain,
“Who has cut a channel for the torrents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
to bring rain on a land where no one lives, on the desert, which is empty of human life,
to satisfy the waste and desolate land, and to make the ground put forth grass?
He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.
The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of long ago.
Can any idols of the nations bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God? We set our hope on you, for it is you who do all this.
And I also withheld the rain from you when there were still three months to the harvest; I would send rain on one city, and send no rain on another city; one field would be rained upon, and the field on which it did not rain withered;
Ask rain from the Lord in the season of the spring rain, from the Lord who makes the storm clouds, who gives showers of rain to you, the vegetation in the field to everyone.