Job 28:26

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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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 i...
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...
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 shou...
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 h...
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 quan...
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 mys...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A decree for the rain] i.e. for its regulation.
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 su...
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 t...
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...
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 th...
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...
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...
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, a...
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 2...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Wisdom Hidden from Man; The Wisdom Revealed to Man. B. C. 1520....
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....
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...
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 ques...
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, a...
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 p...
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,...
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 Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

When He made a decree for the rain, appointing to it when and how often it should fall, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, a path for the...
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 l...

²⁶ When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

Related Commentaries of Job 28:26

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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