Job 26:10
He has described a boundary upon the face of the waters, to the confines of light and darkness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.
11The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.
Cross References
Job 38:8Or [who] shut up the sea with doors when it broke forth, [like] it had issued out of the womb,
Job 38:11and said, This far thou shall come, but no further, and here thy proud waves shall be stayed?
Psalms 33:7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in store-houses.
Proverbs 8:29when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
Jeremiah 5:22Do ye not fear me? says LORD. Will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? And though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet they cannot prevai
Matthew Henry on Job 26:6-14
The Wisdom and Power of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 5 Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof. 6 Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering. 7 He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing. 8 He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them. 9 He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. 10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end. 11… Read the whole commentary →