26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
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Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapour; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.
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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