Job 26:10
He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9He withholdeth the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud over it.
11The pillars of heaven tremble, and dread at his beck.
Cross References
Job 38:8Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb :
Job 38:11And I said : Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou shalt break thy swelling waves.
Psalms 33:7Gathering together the waters of the sea, as in a vessel; laying up the depths in storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29When he compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits: when be balanced the foundations of the earth;
Jeremiah 5:22Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.
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 →