Job 26:7

World English Bible (2000)

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

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  • Job 9:8 : 8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
  • Ps 104:2-5 : 2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of his rooms in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes his messengers winds; his servants flames of fire. 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.
  • Isa 40:22 : 22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
  • Gen 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
  • Isa 40:26 : 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.
  • Isa 42:5 : 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.
  • Prov 8:23-27 : 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth; 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
  • Ps 24:2 : 2 For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

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  • Job 26:8-11
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    8 He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

    9 He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

    10 He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

    11 The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his rebuke.

  • 6 Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

  • Isa 40:21-23
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    21 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?

    22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

    23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

  • 15 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

  • 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding has he stretched out the heavens:

  • Job 9:5-8
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    5 He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

    6 He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

    7 He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

    8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.

  • 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

  • Job 28:24-25
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    24 For he looks to the ends of the earth, and sees under the whole sky.

    25 He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9 Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

    10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

  • 3 He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

  • 13 By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

  • 13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • 30 Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

  • 18 Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

  • 26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.

  • 5 Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

  • 23 I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

  • 14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'

  • 5 He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever.

  • 11 The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; the world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • 5 Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens and stretched them out, he who spread out the earth and that which comes out of it, he who gives breath to its people and spirit to those who walk in it.

  • 1 Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.

  • 12 "Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

  • 15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 9 He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • 17 All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • 22 Out of the north comes golden splendor. With God is awesome majesty.

  • 6 He stood, and shook the earth. He looked, and made the nations tremble. The ancient mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are eternal.

  • 3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

  • 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  • 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; on the wilderness, in which there is no man;

  • 6 It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

  • 6 Who by his power forms the mountains, having armed yourself with strength;

  • 2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

  • 7 He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • 16 Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

  • 7 who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

  • 12 It is turned around by his guidance, that they may do whatever he commands them on the surface of the habitable world,

  • 29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;

  • 22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.