Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to 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.
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,
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 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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References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 28:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Discourse On Wisdom
25 making a weight for the winds, and measuring out the waters by measure. 26 When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to thunder; 27 then He saw it, and declared it; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Names
Cross References
Job 38:25
Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps;
Job 37:3
He loosens it under the whole heavens, and His lightning to the ends of the earth.
Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we do not know; the number of His years cannot be searched out.
Job 36:32
He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark;
Job 37:11
Also He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters the lightning cloud,
Job 38:27
to satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the source of grass to spring forth?
Psalm 29:3-10
The voice of Jehovah is on the waters; the God of glory thunders; Jehovah is above 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 who make rain fall? Or can the heavens give showers? Is it not You, O Jehovah our God? Then we will wait on You; for You do all these things.
Amos 4:7
And I have also withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest. And I caused rain to fall on one city and caused it not to rain on another city; one piece was rained on, and the piece on which it did not rain dried up.
Zechariah 10:1
Ask rain from Jehovah in the time of the latter rain. Jehovah shall make storm clouds, and He gives them showers of rain, grass to everyone in the field.