Job 26:10
A fixed limit he compassed off over the face of the waters, for the division of the light and darkness.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9He closed up the surface of his throne, spreading over it his cloud;
11The pillars of heaven tremble greatly, and are astounded at his rebuke.
Cross References
Job 38:8And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth?
Job 38:11And said, Thus far mayest thou come, but no farther; and here shall be stayed [thy strength] in the pride of thy waves?
Psalms 33:7He gathereth together like heaps the waters of the sea: he layeth up in store-houses the depths [of the sea].
Proverbs 8:29When he assigned to the sea his decree, that the waters should not transgress his order: when he established firmly the foundations of the earth:
Jeremiah 5:22Will ye not fear me? saith the Lord; will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand as a bound for the sea by an everlasting law, which it can never pass over? and though the waves thereof be upheaved, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they 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 →