The Meaning of Job 28:25 Explained

Job 28:25

KJV: To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

YLT: To make for the wind a weight, And the waters He meted out in measure.

Darby: In making a weight for the wind, and meting out the waters by measure,

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 28:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 28:1-28 - The Pearl Of Great Price
A search for this pearl of great price has occupied men in every age. Job compares it with the search of the miner for the hidden treasures of the earth, Job 28:1-12. This paragraph should be read in the r.v. The shaft into the earth, the miner's exile from the cheerful haunts of human life, his exposure to dangers from foul air, water, and the falling-in of the mine, the binding up of the streams, are vividly portrayed. But the miner perseveres through all till he obtains his golden spoil. Would that we were as persistent in our quest for the knowledge of God! Paul was a great miner; he went down into caverns of pain and sorrow, that he might bring to light the treasures of God's wisdom and love.
Only God knows God, Job 28:23. In the depths of His nature, dark with excess of light but hidden from the falcon's eye of human genius, are both knowledge and understanding. He waits to reveal these things to babes, saying, "Fear God, and you will be wise. Depart from evil, and you will understand," Job 28:28. Christ is the Word and the Wisdom of God, 1 Corinthians 1:24. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 28

1  There is a knowledge of natural things
12  But wisdom is an excellent gift of God

What do the individual words in Job 28:25 mean?

To establish for the wind a weight and the waters apportion by measure
לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת לָר֣וּחַ מִשְׁקָ֑ל וּ֝מַ֗יִם תִּכֵּ֥ן בְּמִדָּֽה

לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת  To  establish 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
לָר֣וּחַ  for  the  wind 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, common singular
Root: רוּחַ  
Sense: wind, breath, mind, spirit.
מִשְׁקָ֑ל  a  weight 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁקָל  
Sense: heaviness, weight.
וּ֝מַ֗יִם  and  the  waters 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural
Root: מַיִם  
Sense: water, waters.
תִּכֵּ֥ן  apportion 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: תָּכַן  
Sense: to regulate, measure, estimate, ponder, balance, make even, level, weigh, be equal, be weighed out, test, prove.
בְּמִדָּֽה  by  measure 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: מִדָּה 
Sense: measure, measurement, stature, size, garment.

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