The Pulpit Commentary on Job 28:25

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

To make the weight for the winds. God by his wisdom gives to winds their exactly fitting degree of force and violence, so that they perform the work in the world which they were intended to perform, and which would not be performed, were they either of a less or of a greater intensity.

And he weigheth the waters by measure (comp. Isaiah 40:12, "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?"

). Everything in creation is duly proportioned to every other thing. All is ordered "by weight and with care."

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