Job 28:26

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

when he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:25 : 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,
  • Job 37:3 : 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
  • Job 37:11 : 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.
  • Job 36:26 : 26 The Work and Wisdom of God“Yes, God is great– beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.
  • Job 36:32 : 32 With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.
  • Job 38:27 : 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?
  • Ps 29:3-9 : 3 The LORD’s shout is heard over the water; the majestic God thunders, the LORD appears over the surging water. 4 The LORD’s shout is powerful, the LORD’s shout is majestic. 5 The LORD’s shout breaks the cedars, the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon. 6 He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox. 7 The LORD’s shout strikes with flaming fire. 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh. 9 The LORD’s shout bends the large trees and strips the leaves from the forests. Everyone in his temple says,“Majestic!” 10 The LORD sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, the LORD sits enthroned as the eternal king.
  • Ps 148:8 : 8 O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
  • Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
  • Amos 4:7 : 7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up.
  • Zech 10:1 : 1 The Restoration of the True People Ask the LORD for rain in the season of the late spring rains– the LORD who causes thunderstorms– and he will give everyone showers of rain and green growth in the field.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 38:24-26
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    24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

    25Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder,

    26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,

  • Job 28:27
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    27then he looked at wisdom and assessed its value; he established it and examined it closely.

  • Job 28:25
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    25When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,

  • Jer 51:16
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    16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12The LORD is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.

    13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.

  • Job 37:3-6
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    3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

    4After that a voice roars; he thunders with an exalted voice, and he does not hold back his lightning bolts when his voice is heard.

    5God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

    6For to the snow he says,‘Fall to earth,’ and to the torrential rains,‘Pour down.’

  • Job 36:32
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    32With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

  • Job 36:27-30
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    27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,

    28which the clouds pour down and shower on humankind abundantly.

    29Who can understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

    30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

    29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

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    7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.

  • Ps 77:17-18
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    17The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.

    18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

  • Job 37:15-16
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    15Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

    16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • Job 37:11-12
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    11He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds.

    12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • Job 26:8-9
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    8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

    9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.

  • Job 38:34-35
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    34Can you raise your voice to the clouds so that a flood of water covers you?

    35Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you,‘Here we are’?

  • Ps 97:4
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    4His lightning bolts light up the world; the earth sees and trembles.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

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    28Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

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    8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,

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    11He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

    12From the brightness in front of him came hail and fiery coals.

    13The LORD thundered in the sky; the Most High shouted.

    14He shot his arrows and scattered them, many lightning bolts and routed them.

  • Job 38:9-10
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    72%

    9when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

    10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • Job 26:14
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    14Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?”

  • Ps 107:25
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    25He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.

  • 2 Sam 22:14-15
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    14The LORD thundered from the sky; the Most High shouted loudly.

    15He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

  • Job 28:11
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    11He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

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    12By his power he stills the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab the great sea monster to pieces.

  • Job 41:32
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    32It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had a head of white hair.

  • Job 22:14
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    14Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

  • Job 37:22
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    22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.

  • Ps 104:3
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    3and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind.