Job 38:25

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 28:26 : 26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;
  • Job 36:27-28 : 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.
  • Job 37:3-6 : 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.
  • 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Job 28:25-27
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Job 38:26-29
    4 verses
    82%

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

    27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?

    28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?

    29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?

  • Job 38:33-38
    6 verses
    78%

    33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth?

    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?

    36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

    37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

    38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?

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

  • 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.

  • Job 37:3-6
    4 verses
    77%

    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.

  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

  • Ps 77:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    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 36:27-29
    3 verses
    75%

    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?

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

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

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

  • 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 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.

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

  • 2 Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

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

  • 5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it?

  • 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:

  • 13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • 4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

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

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