New International Version
Job 26:10
10He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)He created the horizon when he separated the waters; he set the boundary between day and night.
Context of Job 26:10
8He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight. 9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it. He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness. 11The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke. 12By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
Read all of Job 26Job 26:10 word by word
חֹֽק־חָ֭ג עַל־פְּנֵי־מָ֑יִם עַד־תַּכְלִ֖ית א֣וֹר עִם־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 26:10
- Job 38:8“Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
- Psalms 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses.
- Psalms 104:6You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
- Proverbs 8:29when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 5:22Should you not fear me?” declares the Lord. “Should you not tremble in my presence? I made the sand a boundary for the sea, an everlasting barrier it cannot cross. The waves may roll, but they cannot prevail; they may roar, but they cannot cross it.
- Genesis 8:22“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
- Isaiah 54:9“To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke 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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