God’s Word Translation
Job 26:8
8He holds the water in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t ⌞even⌟ split under its ⌞weight⌟.
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
6Sheol is naked in God’s presence, and Abaddon has no clothing. 7“He stretches out his heavens over empty space. He hangs the earth on nothing whatsoever. He holds the water in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t ⌞even⌟ split under its ⌞weight⌟. 9He covers his throne by spreading his cloud over it. 10He marks the horizon on the surface of the water at the boundary where light meets dark.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:8 word by word
צֹרֵֽר־מַ֥יִם בְּעָבָ֑יו וְלֹא־נִבְקַ֖ע עָנָ֣ן תַּחְתָּֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 26:8
- Job 36:29Can anyone really understand how clouds spread out or how he thunders from his dwelling place?
- Job 38:9when I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it up in dark clouds,
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a horizon in the middle of the water in order to separate the water.”
- Psalms 135:7He is the one who makes the clouds rise from the ends of the earth, who makes lightning for the thunderstorms, and who brings wind out of his storerooms.
- Proverbs 30:4“Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the palm of his hand? Who has wrapped water in a garment? Who has set up the earth from one end to the other? What is his name or the name of his son? Certainly, you must know!
- Jeremiah 10:13He speaks, and the water in the sky produces a storm. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning flash with the rain. He brings wind out of his storehouses.
- Job 37:11Yes, he loads the thick clouds with moisture and scatters his lightning from the clouds.
- Psalms 18:10He rode on one of the angels as he flew, and he soared on the wings of the wind.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland. It will never be pruned or hoed. Thorns and weeds will grow in it, and I will command the clouds not to 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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