Job 26:10

American Standard Version (1901)

He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb; 9 When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it, 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away 8 (The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. 10 For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed; but my lovingkindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee.

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    7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

    8He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.

    9He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

  • Ps 104:9
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    9Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.

  • Job 36:30
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    30Behold, he spreadeth his light around him; And he covereth the bottom of the sea.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    77%

    28When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

    29When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

  • Job 38:10-12
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    76%

    10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

    11And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

    12Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days [began], [And] caused the dayspring to know its place;

  • Ps 33:7
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    7He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9The measure thereof is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.

    10If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?

  • Job 26:11-12
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    11The pillars of heaven tremble And are astonished at his rebuke.

    12He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

  • Job 28:11
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    11He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

  • Job 28:24-25
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    24For he looketh to the ends of the earth, And seeth under the whole heaven;

    25To make a weight for the wind: Yea, he meteth out the waters by measure.

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

    13when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7That commandeth the sun, and it riseth not, And sealeth up the stars;

    8That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12And he made darkness pavilions round about him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 14:5
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    5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • Job 12:15
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    15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3[ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

  • Job 38:30
    72%

    30The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.

  • Gen 1:6
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    6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

  • Ps 74:16-17
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    16The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

    17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

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  • Job 37:18
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    18Canst thou with him spread out the sky, Which is strong as a molten mirror?

  • Job 38:16
    71%

    16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Gen 1:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth,

    18and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 24:2
    71%

    2For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.

  • Ps 136:6
    71%

    6To him that spread forth the earth above the waters; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:

  • Job 37:3
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    3He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

  • Job 36:27
    71%

    27For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

  • Prov 3:20
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    20By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.

  • Job 36:32
    71%

    32He covereth his hands with the lightning, And giveth it a charge that it strike the mark.

  • Job 38:25
    71%

    25Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder;

  • Job 22:14
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    14Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he seeth not; And he walketh on the vault of heaven.

  • Ps 104:6
    71%

    6Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.

  • Ps 18:11
    71%

    11He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
    71%

    16Then the channels of the sea appeared, The foundations of the world were laid bare, By the rebuke of Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

  • Job 41:32
    70%

    32He maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.

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    19He appointed the moon for seasons: The sun knoweth his going down.