Job 26:10
He separated the light from the darkness and put the horizon to mark the place where the night ends and the daytime begins.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9He causes clouds to ◄obscure/prevent us from seeing► the moon.
Cross References
Job 38:8“When the seas poured forth from inside the earth, who prevented the water from flooding over the land?
Job 38:11I pointed to the shore and said to the water, ‘I permit you to come up to here, but I do not permit you to come any farther. Your powerful waves must stop there!’
Psalms 33:7He gathered all the water into one huge mass like someone scoops liquid into a container.
Proverbs 8:29I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it and flood the land. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.
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 →