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Job 26:8
8He fills the clouds with water. They become heavy but they do not break.
Job 26:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
- New International Version (NIV)He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not split open under them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.
Context of Job 26:8
6God sees everything that happens in the place of dead people. Nothing can hide that terrible place from him. 7He puts the skies in their place in the north, so that they cover empty space. He hangs the earth in the skies and it stays there. He 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. 10He marks the border between the sea and the sky. It is the place where the night finishes and the day begins.
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צֹרֵֽר־מַ֥יִם בְּעָבָ֑יו וְלֹא־נִבְקַ֖ע עָנָ֣ן תַּחְתָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 26:8
- Job 36:29Who understands how the clouds move across the sky? How does the noise of thunder come from God's home?
- Job 38:9I caused the clouds to come over the sea. I covered it with complete darkness.
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, ‘A wide space will appear between the waters. So the waters will be in two separate places.’
- Psalms 135:7The Lord causes clouds to rise up all over the earth. He sends lightning with the storms of rain. He sends out the wind from its place, so that it blows where he chooses.
- Proverbs 30:4No one has gone up to heaven and then come back. No one has held the wind in his hands. No one has tied his coat around the seas. No one has fixed the borders of the earth. If anyone has done this, tell me his name. Tell me his son's name. Tell me, if you know.
- Jeremiah 10:13When he shouts like thunder, the water in the sky roars. He causes clouds to rise from the far places of the earth. He causes bright lightning to show in the storms. He opens his rooms so that the wind comes out and it blows everywhere.
- Job 37:11He fills the clouds with lots of water. He sends the lightning through the clouds.
- Psalms 18:10He sat on a cherub and he flew. The wind carried him as he travelled.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make the land become useless. Nobody will take care of the vines. Nobody will dig the ground. Weeds and thorn bushes will grow there. I will command the clouds, ‘Do not drop any rain on it.’
Commentaries on Job 26:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8He bindeth up the waters - Drives the aqueous particles together, which were raised by evaporation, so that, being condensed, they form clouds which float in the atmosphere, till, meeting with strong currents of wind, or by the agency of the electric fluid, they are farther condensed; and then, becoming too heavy to be sustained in the air, fall down in the form of rain, when, in this poetic language, the cloud is rent under them.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds - That is, he seems to do it, or to collect the waters in the clouds, as in bottles or vessels. The clouds appear to hold the waters, as if bound up, until he is pleased to send them drop by drop upon the earth. And the cloud is not rent under them - The wonder which Job here expresses is, that so large a quantity of water as is poured down from the clouds, should be held suspended in the air without seeming to…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
- 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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