Job 28:25
When God fixed the weight of the wind and measured out the waters,
To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.
He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.
To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Job 28:25
- To make the weight, etc. God has given an atmosphere to the earth, which, possessing a certain degree of gravity perfectly suited to the necessities of all animals, vegetables, and fluids, should be the cause, in His hands, of preserving animal and vegetable life; for by it the blood circulates in the veins of animals, and the juices in the tubes of vegetables. Without this atmospheric pressure there could be no respiration; and the elasticity of the particles of air in animal and vegetable bodies, would rupture the vessels in which they are contained, and destroy both kinds of life.
- Psalm 135:7; Isaiah 40:12