Job 26:8
He fills the thick/dense clouds with water and prevents that water from bursting the clouds.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.
In Context
9He causes clouds to ◄obscure/prevent us from seeing► the moon.
Cross References
Genesis 1:7And that is what happened. God gave to the space the name ‘sky’.
Job 37:11God fills the clouds with moisture/hail, and lightning flashes from the clouds.
Job 38:37And who is skilled/wise enough to be able to count the clouds? Who can tilt the jugs of water in the sky to cause the rain to fall,
Psalms 135:7He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
Proverbs 30:4But let me say this: No one [RHQ] has ascended to heaven to find out what God is like and returned to tell us. No one [RHQ] has gathered/held the wind in his hand. No one [RHQ] has wrapped the water in the ocean in a piece of cloth, and no one [RHQ] has established the boundaries of the earth. If you know who has done those things, tell me [RHQ] his name, and the names of his children [SAR]! But you do not know who has done those things, so you cannot speak with authority about what God is like.
Jeremiah 10:13When he speaks loudly, there is thunder in the sky; he causes clouds to form over every part of the earth. He sends lightning with the rain and releases the winds from his storehouses.
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 →