Job 26:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; 7 At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; 8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you. 10 For the mountains may be taken away, and the hills be moved out of their places, but my love will not be taken from you, or my agreement of peace broken, says the Lord, who has had mercy on you.

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    7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

  • Ps 104:9
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    9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

  • Job 36:30
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    30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • Job 38:10-12
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    10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;

    11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?

    12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

  • Ps 33:7
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    7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9 Longer in measure than the earth, and wider than the sea.

    10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

  • Job 26:11-12
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    11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

    12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.

  • Job 28:11
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    11 He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

  • Job 28:24-25
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    24 For his eyes go to the ends of the earth, and he sees everything under heaven.

    25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

    13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 Who gives orders to the sun, and it does not give its light; and who keeps the stars from shining.

    8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • Job 22:11
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    11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 2 Sam 22:12
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    12 And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

  • Job 14:5
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    5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

  • Job 12:15
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    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 28:3
    72%

    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

  • Job 38:30
    72%

    30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

  • Gen 1:6
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    6 And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

  • Ps 74:16-17
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    16 The day is yours and the night is yours: you made the light and the sun.

    17 By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:

    16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • Job 37:18
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    18 Will you, with him, make the skies smooth, and strong as a polished looking-glass?

  • Job 38:16
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    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17 And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18 To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

  • Ps 24:2
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    2 For by him it was based on the seas, and made strong on the deep rivers.

  • Ps 136:6
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    6 To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

  • Job 37:3
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    3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

  • Job 36:27
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    27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

  • Prov 3:20
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    20 By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

  • Job 36:32
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    32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • Job 38:25
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    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

  • Job 22:14
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    14 Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

  • Ps 104:6
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    6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains;

  • Ps 18:11
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    11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

  • 2 Sam 22:16
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    16 Then the deep beds of the sea were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of the Lord's wrath, because of the breath of his mouth.

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    19 He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.