Job 28:25
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
KJV
Qui fecit ventis pondus, et aquas appendit in mensura.
Vulgate
ἐποίησεν, ἀνέμων σταθμόν, ὕδατος μέτρα,
LXX
To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
ASV
לַ/עֲשׂ֣וֹת לָ/ר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝/מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּ/מִדָּֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הּ֒
h
noun · 49×
יִתָּכֵ֖ן
ytkn
verb · 18×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
מִדָּ֣ה
mdh
noun · 55×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
ר֣וּחַ
rvch
noun · 377×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 7:4 — For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
- Isa 40:12 — 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
- Isa 40:12 — 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
- Job 38:5 — Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?
- Ps 135:7 — 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.
- Ps 135:7 — 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.