25To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-28)The question which Job had asked (Job 28:12) he asks again here; for it is too worthy, too weighty, to be let fall, until we speed in the enquiry. Concerning this we must seek till we find, till we get some satisfactory account of it. By a diligent prosecution of this enquiry he brings it, at length, to this issue, that there is a twofold wisdom, one hidden in God , which is secret and belongs not…
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