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%

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

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

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

  • Job 28:27
    80%

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

  • Job 28:25
    80%

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

  • Jer 51:16
    79%

    16At 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%

    12He 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.

    13At 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%

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

    4After 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.

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

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

  • Job 36:32
    77%

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

  • Job 36:27-30
    4 verses
    77%

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 8:28-29
    2 verses
    77%

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

    29When 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:

  • Ps 135:7
    77%

    7He 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%

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

    18The 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%

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

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

  • Job 37:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

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

    12And 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%

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

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

  • Job 38:34-35
    2 verses
    73%

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

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

  • Ps 97:4
    73%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:12
    73%

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

  • Job 22:28
    73%

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

  • Ps 148:8
    73%

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

  • Ps 18:11-14
    4 verses
    73%

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

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

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

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

  • Job 38:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Job 26:14
    72%

    14See, 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.

  • Ps 107:25
    72%

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

  • 2 Sam 22:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Job 28:11
    71%

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

  • Job 26:12
    71%

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

  • Job 22:14
    71%

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

  • Job 37:22
    70%

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

  • Ps 104:3
    70%

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