[Job 28:25] To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
[Weight of the winds - controls the worldwide air mass movements that transport the waters evaporated from the oceans inland over the continents. There the waters, also carefully measured by G-d, fall to the ground to water the earth. We now know that global weights of air and water must be in critical relationship to each other, and to the earth as a whole, to maintain life on earth. No other planet in the solar system has a significant amount of either air or water, and no other planets are known to exist in the universe. Planet earth is uniquely designed for life, and its atmosphere and hydrosphere are the most important components of that design. If the weights of either air or water were much different than they are, life, as we know it could not survive.
So this passage is also significant in recognizing that air and wind have weight, a fact not obvious to the physical senses and not confirmed scientifically until about 300 years ago. The indication in this Joban passage that there is a parallel between the behavior of air and water was recognized in the late ninetieth century.
He – G-d, in the hollow of His hand, where He poises them; (Isa. 40:12). The perfect and exact knowledge G-d has of them, and of His great and diligent concern in Providence about them, He ordering and disposing of them according to His will.
Water - Hydrology, the study of water, deals with the occurrence and behavior of water in its natural state. Air and water have been the two necessities for maintaining life ever since the global atmosphere and hydrosphere were established by G-d on the second day of creation week.
The concept of the hydrological cycle and its successive phases (evaporation, atmospheric circulation, condensation, precipitation, run-off) was not discovered (or rediscovered) until recent centuries. Yet there are several significant references in Job that are remarkably consistent with modern hydrology and meteorology.]
[26] When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:[When he made a decree - for rain is his gift alone and a wonderful blessing to the earth it is. Some clouds never fall while others grow dark and heavy. The difference is with right combination of air turbulence and clouds; the complex forces generate an electrical field that produces lightning discharges. These violent electrical currents, in some complex energy exchange not yet fully understood, that cause the small water droplets to bind together with others to form larger drops. And then this remarkable series of events delivers the rain to the thirsty ground.
Lighting of the thunder - Thunder is from God, it is his voice, and the word here used is in the plural number, "voices", signifying various claps of thunder; and lightning generally accompanies it, which, though first perceived, they are both at once the eye doing its office quicker than the ear; the way of the lightning out of the thunder cloud, and attending claps of thunder; the thunder breaks the cloud and makes a path for the lightning.]
[27] Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.[His own wisdom, when He made and executed His decrees concerning rain, lightning, and thunder; He saw it in Himself, and as it appeared in the works of His hands, which He looked on and approved of, and saw that all was very good; and He declared it by His works of nature and providence; for they declare the glory of G-d, and particularly the glory of His wisdom.]
All done by the Creater's hand!
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