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Job 26:10
10He marks the border between the sea and the sky. It is the place where the night finishes and the day begins.
Job 26:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
- New International Version (NIV)He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness.
Context of Job 26:10
8He fills the clouds with water. They become heavy but they do not break. 9When the moon is big and round, he hides it. He causes clouds to cover it. He marks the border between the sea and the sky. It is the place where the night finishes and the day begins. 11When God is angry, he shouts at the pillars under the sky. When they hear his command, they shake with fear. 12He used his power to control the sea. He used his wisdom to destroy Rahab, the great sea monster.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:10 word by word
חֹֽק־חָ֭ג עַל־פְּנֵי־מָ֑יִם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית א֣וֹר עִם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 26:10
- Job 38:8When the sea poured out of the ground, I decided where its borders should be. I kept the water in its right place.
- Psalms 33:7He put the water of the sea together in a heap. He made the deep seas stay in their right places.
- Psalms 104:6You covered the earth with deep water, like a coat. The water covered the tops of the mountains.
- Proverbs 8:29He gave his command to the seas, that they should obey him. The waters of the sea must stay inside its borders. I was there when he built the foundations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22The Lord says, ‘You should respect me and obey me. You should shake with fear when you come to me. I made the sand as an edge for the sea. It is like a wall that the sea cannot cross. The sea's waves may attack the shore, but it cannot go further than that edge.
- Genesis 8:22As long as the earth continues to be here, the time for people to plant seeds will come each year. The time for harvest will come each year. Times of cold and heat will always come. Summer and winter will always come. Day and night will never stop.’
- Isaiah 54:9‘This is like what I did in Noah's time. At that time, I promised that a flood of water would never again destroy the earth. Now, at this time, I have promised that I will not be angry with you again. I will not speak against you again.
Commentaries on Job 26:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10He hath compassed the waters with bounds - Perhaps this refers merely to the circle of the horizon, the line that terminates light and commences darkness, called here חשך עם אור תכלית עד ad tachlith or im chosech, "until the completion of light with darkness." Or, if we take תכלית tachlith here to be the same with תכלת techeleth, Exodus 25:4, and elsewhere, which we translate blue, it may mean that sombre sky-blue appearance of the horizon at the time of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10He hath compassed the waters with bounds - The word rendered “compassed” (חוּג chûg ), means to describe a circle - to mark out with a compass; and the reference is to the form of the horizon, which appears as a circle, and which seems to be marked out with a compass. A similar idea Milton has beautifully expressed in his account of the creation: “Then staid the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God‘s eternal store…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 5-14Verses 5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty power. If we consider hell beneath, though out of our sight, yet we may conceive the discoveries of God's power there. If we look up to heaven above, we see displays of God's almighty power. By his Spirit, the eternal Spirit that moved upon the face of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10has inscribed a horizon: See Genesis 1:6–10; Psalm 104:6–9; Proverbs 8:29.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-145-14. As before in the ninth and twelfth chapters, Job had shown himself not inferior to the friends' inability to describe God's greatness, so now he describes it as manifested in hell (the world of the dead), Job 26:5, 6; on earth, Job 26:7; in the sky, Job 26:8-11; the sea, Job 26:12; the heavens, Job 26:13. Dead things are formed--Rather, "The souls of the dead (Rephaim) tremble." Not only does God's power exist, as Bildad says (Job 25:2), "in high…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 26
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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