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Job 28:26
when He set a limit for the rain and a path for the thunderbolt,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses his interlocutors within a discourse on the human quest for understanding, immediately after describing God’s control over wind and water. The words — חֹק (Chok) translates literally as “decree,” and דֶרֶךְ (De.rekh) means “path,” describing the fixed boundaries and routes God establishes for rain and thunder. The thread — The theme of divine control over atmospheric forces recurs in Job 38:25, which describes God clearing a path for the thunderbolt; Job 37:3, which records God unleashing lightning beneath the whole sky; and Zechariah 10:1, which states the LORD makes storm clouds and sends showers of rain. Why it lands — The text demands recognition that natural phenomena operate under God’s precise measurement before any pursuit of wisdom begins.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Cross-references
- Job 38:25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
- Job 37:3 He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 10:1 Ask 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 36:26 Indeed, God is great—beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.
- Job 36:32 He fills His hands with lightning and commands it to strike its mark.
- Job 37:11 He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- Job 38:27 to satisfy the parched wasteland and make it sprout with tender grass?
- Psalms 29:3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
- Psalms 148:8 lightning and hail, snow and clouds, powerful wind fulfilling His word,
- Jeremiah 14:22 Can 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.