Job 26:10
A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
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 over it His cloud.
11Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.
Cross References
Job 38:8And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
Job 38:11And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'
Psalms 33:7Gathering as a heap the waters of the sea, Putting in treasuries the depths.
Proverbs 8:29In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,
Jeremiah 5:22Me do ye not fear, an affirmation of Jehovah? From My presence are ye not pained? Who hath made sand the border of the sea, A limit age-during, and it passeth not over it, They shake themselves, and they are not able, Yea, sounded have its billows, and they pass not 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 →