Job 28:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: ”

• Job 28:26 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  When he made a decree for the rain - A statute or law ( חק chôq ) by which the rain is regulated. It is not sent by chance or hap-hazard. It is under the operation of regular and settled laws....

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• Job 28:26 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Job 28. Here again we come to a critical question. It is difficult to fit this chapter into the argument, whether Job 27:7-23 is given to Job or to Zophar. It is a widely accepted conclusion of s...

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• Job 28:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: When he made a decree for the rain - When he determined how that should be generated, viz., By the heat of the sun evap...

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• Job 28:26 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  God understandeth the way thereof— Job having observed, that the generations of men who had lived in former ages had said, concerning wisdom, we have heard the fame thereof with our ears, adds, t...

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• Job 28:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: The decree regulating at what time and place, and in what quantity, the rain should fall. A way - through th...

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• Job 28:26 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Mystery of Divine Wisdom In this famous chapter Job declares that Wisdom—that is, the principle of the divine government of the world—is a mystery not to be solved by man. Man's wisdom lies in...

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• Job 28:26 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXIII. CHORAL INTERLUDE Job 28:1-28 THE controversy at length closed, the poet breaks into a chant of the quest of Wisdom. It can hardly be supposed to have been uttered or sung by Job. But if...

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• Job 28:26 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Pearl of Great Price Job 28:1-28 A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, J...

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• Job 28:26 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In a fine passage Job now discussed the question of wisdom. What was supremely lacking in his friends' dealing with him was wisdom to understand. As an introduction to the main statement of his argum...

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• Job 28:26 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) В¶ Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? (21) Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. (22) Destruction and death say...

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• Job 28:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder . Decreed within himself that he would give it; for rain is his gift alone, and which none of the vanities of the Genti...

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• Job 28:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder: Ver. 26. When he made a decree for the rain ] And hence it is that it raineth upon one city, and not upon another,...

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• Job 28:26 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  When At the first creation, he settled that course and order which should afterward be continued; he made a decree for the rain An appointment, and, as it were, a statute law, that it should fall...

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• Job 28:26 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  EARTH'S MEASURED TREASURES (vv.1-6) Job has spoken of the folly of wicked men. Now he shows that which stands in beautiful contrast to Chapter 27. The language here is magnificent, as Job consid...

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• Job 28:26 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520.       20 Whence then com...

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• Job 28:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  When he made; which was either from eternity, or at the first creation, when he settled that course and order which should afterwards be continued. Or, when he maketh : but our translation seems b...

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• Job 28:26 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S DESCANT ON TRUE WISDOM The place occupied by this chapter one peculiar to itself. Its connection with the preceding or succeeding portions of the book by no means obvious. Appears scarcely...

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• Job 28:26 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Job 28:1 , Job 28:12-13 ; Job 28:20-28 This chapter falls naturally into three sections, the first two sections being terminated by this question, with a slight variety of statement: "Whence...

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• Job 28:26 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 28:2 . Brass is molten, melted out of ores of zinc, lapis calaminaris, light perforated ores, found on Mendip hills in Somerset, Derbyshire, and other places. Job 28:4 . The flood breaketh...

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• Job 28:26 - The Biblical Illustrator

  But where shall wisdom be found? The speculative difficulties of an inquiring intellect solved by the heart of practical piety Two things are prominently developed in this chapter--Man’s power...

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• Job 28:26 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Job 28:1-18 The connection of this chapter with the preceding is somewhat obscure. Probably we are to regard Job as led to see, even while he is justifying God's ways with sinner...

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• Job 28:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God Alone The Possessor of True Wisdom. Over against man's foolish quest for vain and unstable riches Job places the wisdom of God, unattainable by the outward seeking and searching of men.

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• Job 28:26 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Amos 4:7 ; Jeremiah 14:22 ; Job 36:26 ; Job 36:32 ; Job 37:3 ; Job 38:25 ; Psalms 148:8 ; Psalms 29:3-10 ; Zechariah 10:1

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• Job 28:26 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  When — At the first creation, when he settled that course and order which should he continued. A decree — An appointment and as it were a statute law, that it should fall upon the earth, in such ti...

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