Job 28:25
Strong's Lexicon
When God fixed
לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

the weight
מִשְׁקָ֑ל (miš·qāl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4948: 1) heaviness, weight

of the wind
לָר֣וּחַ (lā·rū·aḥ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

and measured out
בְּמִדָּֽה׃ (bə·mid·dāh)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4060: 1) measure, measurement, stature, size, garment 1a) measure, act of measurement 1b) measurement, size 1c) measured portion, extent 1d) garment 2) (BDB) tribute

the waters,
וּ֝מַ֗יִם (ū·ma·yim)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: 1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,

Young's Literal Translation
To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When God fixed the weight of  the  wind and limited the water by  measure, 

New American Standard Bible
"When He imparted weight to the wind And meted out the waters by measure,

King James Bible
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
When he established the force of the wind and measured out the waters,

New Living Translation
He decided how hard the winds should blow and how much rain should fall.

English Standard Version
When he gave to the wind its weight and apportioned the waters by measure,

New American Standard Bible
"When He imparted weight to the wind And meted out the waters by measure,

King James Bible
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When God fixed the weight of the wind and limited the water by measure,

International Standard Version
"He imparted weight to the wind; he regulated water by his measurement.

NET Bible
When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge.

American Standard Version
To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

English Revised Version
To make a weight for the wind; yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

Young's Literal Translation
To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.
















Cross References
Job 12:15
Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Job 38:8
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

Psalm 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.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 28:24
For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven;

Job 28:23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Job 28:22
Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.

Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

Job 28:27
Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

Job 28:28
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
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