Job 26:10
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
11The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
Cross References
Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross 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 →