Job 26:8
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
In Context
7By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
9By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.
Job 37:11The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;
Job 38:37By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,
Psalms 135:7He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.
Proverbs 30:4Who has gone up to heaven and come down? who has taken the winds in his hands, prisoning the waters in his robe? by whom have all the ends of the earth been fixed? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if you are able to say?
Jeremiah 10:13At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
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 →