Job 26:10
He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.
Catholic Public Domain 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 holds back the face of his throne, and he stretches his cloud over it.
11The pillars of heaven tremble and are frightened at his nod.
Cross References
Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea with doors, when it broke forth as if issuing from the womb,
Job 38:11And I said: “This far you will approach, and you will proceed no further, and here you will break your swelling waves.”
Psalms 33:7This poor one cried out, and the Lord heeded him, and he saved him from all his tribulations.
Proverbs 8:29when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22So then, will you not fear me, says the Lord. And will you not have sorrow before my face? I have placed the shore as a limit for the sea, as an everlasting precept that it will not transgress. And its waves will crash, but they will not prevail; and its waves will swell, but they will not go across.
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 →