Job 26:10
He has placed a limit on the waters, || To the boundary of light with darkness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9Taking hold of the face of the throne, || Spreading His cloud over it.
11Pillars of the heavens tremble, || And they wonder because of His rebuke.
Cross References
Job 38:8And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
Job 38:11And say, To here you come, and no more, || And a command is placed || On the pride of your billows.
Psalms 33:7Gathering the waters of the sea as a heap, || Putting the depths in treasuries.
Proverbs 8:29In His setting for the sea its limit, || And the waters do not transgress His command, || In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” A declaration of YHWH; “Are you not pained from My presence? Who has made sand the border of the sea, || A perpetual limit, and it does not pass over it, || They shake themselves, and they are not able, || Indeed, its billows have sounded, and they do not pass over.
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 →