Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
New American Standard Bible
And a course for the
King James Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Holman Bible
and a path for the lightning,
International Standard Version
He set in place ordinances for the rain; and determined the pathway for thunder that accompanies lightning.
A Conservative Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
American Standard Version
When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder;
Amplified
When He made a limit for the rain
And a way for the thunderbolt,
Darby Translation
In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:
Julia Smith Translation
In his making a law for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the voices.
King James 2000
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
Lexham Expanded Bible
{when he made} a rule for the rain and a way for [the] thunder's lightning bolt,
Modern King James verseion
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to thunder;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
When he set the rain in order, and gave the mighty floods a law;
NET Bible
When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,
New Heart English Bible
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
The Emphasized Bible
When he made, for the rain, a decree, and a way for the lightning of thunders,
Webster
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
World English Bible
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;
Youngs Literal Translation
In His making for the rain a limit, And a way for the brightness of the voices,
Themes
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Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters; 26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames; 27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.
Names
Cross References
Job 38:25
By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
Job 37:3
He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
Job 36:26
Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
Job 36:32
He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
Job 37:11
The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
Job 38:27
To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
Psalm 148:8
Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
Jeremiah 14:22
Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Amos 4:7
And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
Zechariah 10:1
Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.