then he saw it and declared it; he established it, and searched it out.
Job 28:26 - Revised Standard Version when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder; 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.
Behold, God is great, and we know him not; the number of his years is unsearchable.
Can any one 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.
Hearken to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes from his mouth.
Under the whole heaven he lets it go, 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 to the shower and the rain, ‘Be strong.’
“Who has cleft a channel for the torents of rain, and a way for the thunderbolt,
to bring rain on a land where no man is, on the desert in which there is no man;
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, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.
The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Art thou not he, O Lord our God? We set our hope on thee, for thou doest all these things.
“And I also withheld the rain from you when there were yet three months to the harvest; I would send rain upon one city, and send no rain upon 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 men showers of rain, to every one the vegetation in the field.