Job 26:7
He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth on nothing.
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- Job 9:8 : 8 he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
- Ps 104:2-5 : 2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain, 3 and lays the beams of the upper rooms of his palace on the rain clouds. He makes the clouds his chariot, and travels along on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant. 5 He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved.
- Isa 40:22 : 22 He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.
- Gen 1:1-2 : 1 ¶ The Creation of the World In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was without shape and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the watery deep, but the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water.
- Isa 40:26 : 26 Look up at the sky! Who created all these heavenly lights? He is the one who leads out their ranks; he calls them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome strength, not one of them is missing.
- Isa 42:5 : 5 This is what the true God, the LORD, says– the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:
- Prov 8:23-27 : 23 From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed. 24 When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water; 25 before the mountains were set in place– before the hills– I was born, 26 before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,
- Ps 24:2 : 2 For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.
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- Job 26:8-114 verses78%
8He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.
9He conceals the face of the full moon, shrouding it with his clouds.
10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.
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6The underworld is naked before God; the place of destruction lies uncovered.
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21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?
22He is the one who sits on the earth’s horizon; its inhabitants are like grasshoppers before him. He is the one who stretches out the sky like a thin curtain, and spreads it out like a pitched tent.
23He is the one who reduces rulers to nothing; he makes the earth’s leaders insignificant.
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15He is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom fixed the world in place, by his understanding he spread out the heavens.
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12The LORD is the one who by his power made the earth. He is the one who by his wisdom established the world. And by his understanding he spread out the skies.
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5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;
6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;
7he who commands the sun and it does not shine and seals up the stars;
8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
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13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
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24For he looks to the ends of the earth and observes everything under the heavens.
25When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,
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9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?
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3Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
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13By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
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13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
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30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.
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18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?
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26before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.
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5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?
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23“I looked at the land and saw that it was an empty wasteland. I looked up at the sky, and its light had vanished.
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14Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’
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5He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved.
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11The heavens belong to you, as does the earth. You made the world and all it contains.
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5This is what the true God, the LORD, says– the one who created the sky and stretched it out, the one who fashioned the earth and everything that lives on it, the one who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who live on it:
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1The Lord Will Judge the Earth Look, the LORD is ready to devastate the earth and leave it in ruins; he will mar its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
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12“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!
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15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
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9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.
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17All the nations are insignificant before him; they are regarded as absolutely nothing.
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22From the north he comes in golden splendor; around God is awesome majesty.
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6He took his battle position and shook the earth; with a mere look he frightened the nations. The ancient mountains disintegrated; the primeval hills were flattened. His are ancient roads.
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3When the earth and all its inhabitants dissolve in fear, I make its pillars secure.”(Selah)
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12The Lord is Incomparable Who has measured out the waters in the hollow of his hand, or carefully measured the sky, or carefully weighed the soil of the earth, or weighed the mountains in a balance, or the hills on scales?
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26to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings,
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6You created the mountains by your power, and demonstrated your strength.
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2He covers himself with light as if it were a garment. He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,
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7He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
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16Do you know about the balancing of the clouds, that wondrous activity of him who is perfect in knowledge?
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7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
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12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.
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29when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
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22But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.