Job 26:7

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Job 9:8 : 8 He hym selfe alone spreadeth out the heauens, and goeth vpon the waues of the sea.
  • Ps 104:2-5 : 2 Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne. 3 Who seeleth his vpper chaumbers with waters: and maketh the cloudes his charriot, and walketh vpon the wynges of the wynde. 4 He maketh his angels spirites: and his ministers a flaming fire. 5 He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations: that it can neuer moue at any tyme.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world, whose inhabiters are in comparison of him but as grashoppers: he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in.
  • Gen 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth. 2 And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes was vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift vp your eyes on high, and consider who hath made those thinges which come out by so great heapes, and he calleth them al by their names: there is nothing hid from the greatnesse of his power, strength, and might.
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 For thus saith God the Lorde vnto hym, euen he that made the heauens and spread them abroade, and set foorth the earth with her increase, whiche geueth breath vnto the people that is in it, and spirite to them that dwell therein,
  • Prov 8:23-27 : 23 I haue ben ordayned from euerlasting, and from the beginning or euer the earth was made. 24 When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water. 25 Before the foundations of the mountaines were layde: yea before all hilles, was I borne: 26 The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe. 27 For when he made the heauens, I was present, when he compassed the deapthes about:
  • Ps 24:2 : 2 For he hath laide the foundation of it vpon the seas: and he hath set it sure vpon the fluddes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 26:8-11
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    78%

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

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

    10He hath compassed the waters with certayne boundes, vntill the day and night come to an ende.

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

  • 6He is naked before him, and the very destruction it selfe can not be hyd out of his sight.

  • Isa 40:21-23
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    21Knowe ye nothyng? hearde ye neuer of it? hath it not ben preached vnto you since the beginning? haue ye not ben enfourmed of this by the foundation of the earth?

    22It is he that sitteth vpon the circle of the world, whose inhabiters are in comparison of him but as grashoppers: he spreadeth out the heauens as a couering, he stretcheth them out as a tent to dwell in.

    23He bringeth princes to nothing, and the iudges of the earth as though they were not.

  • 15Yea 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.

  • 12But 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.

  • Job 9:5-8
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    71%

    5He translateth the mountaynes, or euer they be aware it is he that ouerthroweth them in his wrath.

    6He remoueth the earth out of her place, that the pillers therof shake withall.

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

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

  • 13That it might take holde of the corners of the earth, and that the vngodly might be shaken out of it.

  • Job 28:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

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

    25When he wayed the windes and measured the waters:

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

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

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

  • 13His spirite hath garnished the heauens, & his hand hath made the crooked serpent.

  • 13Who ruleth the earth but he? or who hath placed the whole world?

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

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

  • 26The earth, and all that is vpon the earth was not yet made, no not the dust it selfe.

  • 5Who hath measured it, knowest thou? or who hath spread the lyne vpon it?

  • 23I haue loked vpon the earth, and see it was waste and voyde: I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shine.

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

  • 5He hath layde the earth sure vpon her foundations: that it can neuer moue at any tyme.

  • 11The heauens are thine, the earth also is thine: thou hast layde the foundation of the rounde worlde, and of all the plentie that is therin.

  • 5For thus saith God the Lorde vnto hym, euen he that made the heauens and spread them abroade, and set foorth the earth with her increase, whiche geueth breath vnto the people that is in it, and spirite to them that dwell therein,

  • 1Beholde, the Lord maketh the earth waste and emptie, he turneth it vpside downe, and scattereth abrode the inhabitours therof.

  • 12Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are.

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

  • 9There putteth he his hande vpon the stonie rockes, and ouerthroweth the mountaynes by the rootes.

  • 17All people in comparison of hym are reckened as nothyng: yf they be compared with hym, lesse then nothyng, and as it that is not.

  • 22The faire weather commeth out of the north, the prayse thereof is to God who is terrible.

  • 6He stoode, and measured the earth, he behelde, and dissolued the nations, and the euerlasting mountaynes were broken, and the auncient hilles did bowe, his wayes are euerlasting.

  • 3The earth wasteth and all the inhabitours therof: I haue vpholded the pyllours of it. Selah.

  • 12Who hath measured the waters in his fist? who hath measured heauen with his spanne, and hath comprehended all the earth of the worlde in three measures? who hath wayed the mountaynes and hylles in a ballaunce?

  • 26To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth?

  • 6He buyldeth his spheres in the heauen, & hath layde the foundation of his globe of elementes on the earth: he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out vpon the open earth, the Lorde is his name.

  • 6Thou art he who in his strength setleth fast the mountaines: and is gyrded about with power.

  • 2Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne.

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

  • 16Hast thou knowen the varietie of the cloudes, and the wonderous workes of him which is perfect in knowledge?

  • 7He causeth cloudes to ascende from the lowest part of the earth: he maketh it to lighten when it rayneth, he bringeth wyndes out of his treasure houses.

  • 12He turneth the heauens about by his gouernement, that they may do whatsoeuer he commaundeth them vpon the whole worlde.

  • 29When 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,

  • 22He drue the mightie after hym with his power, and when he was gotten vp no man was sure of lyfe.