Job 26:10
A, boundary, hath he encircled on the face of the waters, as far as where light ends in darkness;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
In Context
9Who shutteth-in the face of the throne, he spreadeth over it his cloud;
11The pillars of the heavens, are shaken, and are terrified at his rebuke:
Cross References
Job 38:8Or [who] shut in, with double doors, the sea, when, bursting out of the womb, it came forth;
Job 38:11And said—Hitherto, shalt thou come, and no further,—and, here, shalt thou set a limit to the majesty of thy waves?
Psalms 33:7Who gathered as into a skin-bottle the waters of the sea, Delivering, into treasuries, the roaring deeps.
Proverbs 8:29When he fixed for the sea its bound, that, the waters, should not go beyond his bidding, when he decreed the foundations of the earth:—
Jeremiah 5:22Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not be pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it,—When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond 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 →