Job 26:10

Bishops' Bible (1568)

He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

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  • Job 38:8-9 : 8 Who shut the sea with doores, when it brake foorth as out of the wombe? 9 When I made the cloudes to be a covering for it, and swadled it with the darke: 10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it, 11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.
  • Prov 8:29 : 29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.
  • Jer 5:22 : 22 Feare ye not me, saith the Lorde? will ye not tremble at my presence? which bynde the sea with the sande by a continuall decree, so that it can not passe his boundes: for though it rage, yet can it do nothing, and though the waues therof do swell, yet may they not go ouer.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles. 7 At thy rebuke they flee: at the noyse of thy thunder they bluster downe apace. 8 The hilles mount aloft: and the valleys settle downe beneath vnto the place where thou hast layde a foundation for them. 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.
  • Isa 54:9-9 : 9 And this is vnto me as the water of Noe: for like as I haue sworne that I wyll not bryng the water of Noe any more vpon the worlde: so haue I sworne that I wyll neuer be angry with thee, nor reproue thee. 10 The mountaynes shall remoue, and the hylles shall fall downe: but my louyng kyndnesse shall not moue, and the bonde of my peace shall not fall downe from thee, saith the Lorde thy mercifull louer.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 26:7-9
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    78%

    7 He stretcheth out the noorth ouer the emptie place, and hangeth the earth vpon nothing.

    8 He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.

    9 He holdeth backe the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloude before it.

  • 9 Thou hast set them their boundes which they shall not passe: neither shall they returne agayne to couer the earth.

  • 30 Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    77%

    28 When he hanged the cloudes aboue, when he fastened the springes of the deepe:

    29 When he shut the sea within certaine boundes, that the waters should not go ouer their markes that he commaunded: when he layde the foundations of the earth,

  • Job 38:10-12
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    10 When I gaue it my commaundement, making doores and barres for it,

    11 Saying, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shalt thou laye downe thy proude and hie waues.

    12 Hast thou geue the morning his charge since thy dayes, and shewed the day spring his place,

  • 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as it were vpon an heape: and layeth vp the deepe as treasures.

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9 The measure of it is longer then the earth, and broder then the sea.

    10 Though he turne all thinges vpsyde downe, close them in, gather them together, who will turne hym from his purpose?

  • Job 26:11-12
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    74%

    11 The very pillers of heauen tremble and quake at his reproofe.

    12 He stilleth the sea with his power, and through his wysdome smyteth he the strength therof.

  • 11 He bindeth the fluddes that they do not ouerflow: and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

  • Job 28:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24 For he beholdeth the endes of the worlde, and loketh vpon all that is vnder heauen.

    25 When he wayed the windes and measured the waters:

  • Jer 10:12-13
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    74%

    12 But as for our God he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdome doth he order the whole compasse of the worlde, with his discretion hath he spread out the heauens.

    13 At his voyce the waters gathered together in the ayre, he draweth vp the cloudes from the vttermost partes of the earth, he turneth lightning to raine, and bringeth foorth the windes out of their treasures.

  • Job 9:7-8
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    7 He commaundeth the sunne, and it ryseth not: he closeth vp the starres as vnder a signet.

    8 He hym selfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and goeth vpon the waues of the sea.

  • 11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee?

  • 12 He made darknes a tabernacle rounde about him: with waters gathered together in thicke cloudes.

  • 5 The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde.

  • 15 Beholde, if he withholde the waters, they drye vp: yf he let them go, they destroy the earth.

  • 3 The darkenesse shall once come to an ende: he can seke out the grounde of all thinges, the stones, the darke, and the shadowe of death.

  • 30 That the waters are hidde as with a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe.

  • 6 And God said: let there be a firmament betwene the waters, and let it make a diuision betwene waters and waters.

  • Ps 74:16-17
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    16 The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.

    17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast ordeyned summer and wynter.

  • Jer 51:15-16
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    72%

    15 Yea euen the Lorde of hoastes that with his power made the earth, with his wisdome prepared the round world, and with his discretion spread out the heauens.

    16 Assoone as he letteth his voyce be hearde, the waters in the ayre waxe fierce: he draweth vp the cloudes from the endes of the earth, he turneth the lightnynges to rayne, he bryngeth the wyndes out of their secrete places.

  • 18 Hast thou helped him to spreade out the heauens which are strong and bright as a loking glasse?

  • 16 Camest thou euer into the grounde of the sea, or walkedst in the lowe corners of the deepe?

  • Gen 1:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17 And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth,

    18 And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good.

  • 2 For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes.

  • 6 Who layde out the earth aboue the waters: for his mercy endureth for euer.

  • 3 He directeth it vnder the whole heauen, and his light vnto the endes of the worlde.

  • 27 Sometime he restrayneth the rayne, and againe he sendeth rayne by his cloudes:

  • 20 Thorow his knowledge the deapthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the deawe.

  • 32 With the cloudes he hydeth the light, and at his commaundement it breaketh out:

  • 25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder,

  • 14 Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen.

  • 6 Thou coueredst it with the deepe, lyke as with a garment: the waters stande vpon the hilles.

  • 11 For his secrete place he dyd put darkenesse: and for his pauilion rounde about hym, he dyd put darknesse of waters in cloudes of the ayre.

  • 16 The chanels of the sea appeared: and the foundatios of the world were seene, by the reason of ye rebuking of the Lord, and through the blasting of the breath of his nosthryls.

  • 32 He maketh the path to be seene after him, and he maketh the deepe to seeme all hoarie.

  • 19 He hath made the moone for certayne seasons: and the sunne knoweth his goyng downe.