Job 28:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:25 : 25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;
  • Job 37:3 : 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
  • Job 36:26 : 26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
  • Job 36:32 : 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters. 4 The voice of the Lord is full of power; the voice of the Lord has a noble sound. 5 By the voice of the Lord are the cedar-trees broken, even the cedars of Lebanon are broken by the Lord. 6 He makes them go jumping about like a young ox; Lebanon and Sirion like a young mountain ox. 7 At the voice of the Lord flames of fire are seen. 8 At the voice of the Lord there is a shaking in the waste land, even a shaking in the waste land of Kadesh. 9 At the voice of the Lord the roes give birth, the leaves are taken from the trees: in his Temple everything says, Glory. 10 The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:
  • Jer 14:22 : 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 : 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.
  • Zech 10:1 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:24-26
    3 verses
    83%

    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

    26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

  • 27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • 25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

  • 16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Jer 10:12-13
    2 verses
    78%

    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

    13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Job 37:3-6
    4 verses
    78%

    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

    4 After it a voice is sounding, thundering out the word of his power; he does not keep back his thunder-flames; from his mouth his voice is sounding.

    5 He does wonders, more than may be searched out; great things of which we have no knowledge;

    6 For he says to the snow, Make the earth wet; and to the rain-storm, Come down.

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 36:27-30
    4 verses
    77%

    27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

    28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.

    29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

    30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

    28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

  • Ps 77:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17 The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide.

    18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking.

  • Job 37:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

    16 Have you knowledge of the balancings of the clouds, the wonders of him who has all wisdom?

  • Job 37:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

    12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

  • Job 26:8-9
    2 verses
    74%

    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

  • Job 38:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

    34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

    35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are?

  • 4 His bright flames give light to the world; the earth saw it with fear.

  • 12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 28 Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

  • 8 Fire and rain of ice, snow and mists; storm-wind, doing his word:

  • Ps 18:11-14
    4 verses
    73%

    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

    12 Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

    13 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out: a rain of ice and fire.

    14 He sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

  • Job 38:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

  • 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

  • 25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.

  • 72%

    14 The Lord made thunder in the heavens, and the voice of the Highest was sounding out.

    15 And he sent out his arrows, driving them in all directions; by his flames of fire they were troubled.

  • 11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • 12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

  • 14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • 22 A bright light comes out of the north; God's glory is greatly to be feared.

  • 3 The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind: