Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,
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.
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,
Bible in Basic English
When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
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,
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Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
25 to make a weight for the wind. Yea, he distributes the waters by measure. 26 When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, 27 then he saw it, and declared it. He established it, yea, and searched it out.
Names
Cross References
Job 38:25
Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder,
Job 37:3
He sends it forth under the whole heaven, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we do not know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
Job 36:32
He covers his hands with the lightning, and gives it a command that it strike the mark.
Job 37:11
Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,
Job 38:27
to satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?
Psalm 29:3-10
The voice of LORD is upon the waters. The God of glory thunders, even LORD upon many waters.
Psalm 148:8
fire and hail, snow and vapor, stormy wind, fulfilling his word,
Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.
Amos 4:7
And I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city. One piece was rained upon, and the piece upon which it
Zechariah 10:1
Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.