New King James Version
Job 26:8
8He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it.
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 Living Translation (NLT)He wraps the rain in his thick clouds, and the clouds don’t burst with the weight.
Context of Job 26:8
6Sheol is naked before Him, And Destruction has no covering. 7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth on nothing. He binds up the water in His thick clouds, Yet the clouds are not broken under it. 9He covers the face of His throne, And spreads His cloud over it. 10He drew a circular horizon on the face of the waters, At the boundary of light and darkness.
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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 36:29Indeed, can anyone understand the spreading of clouds, The thunder from His canopy?
- Job 38:9When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band;
- Genesis 1:6Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
- Psalms 135:7He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries.
- Proverbs 30:4Who has ascended into heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in His fists? Who has bound the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is His Son’s name, If you know?
- Jeremiah 10:13When He utters His voice, There is a multitude of waters in the heavens: “And He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain, He brings the wind out of His treasuries.”
- Job 37:11Also with moisture He saturates the thick clouds; He scatters His bright clouds.
- Psalms 18:10And He rode upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind.
- Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste; It shall not be pruned or dug, But there shall come up briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds That they rain no 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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