Job 26:7

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Job 9:8 : 8 Who alone stretches out the heavens, 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 chambers in the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot. He walks on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes his messengers{or, angels} 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 the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
  • Gen 1:1-2 : 1 In the beginning God{After "God," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet) as a grammatical marker.} 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 host 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 forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:
  • 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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    8He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.

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

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

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

  • Job 26:6
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    6Sheol{Sheol is the lower world or the grave.} is naked before God, And Abaddon{Abaddon means Destroyer.} has no covering.

  • Isa 40:21-23
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    21Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

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

    23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • Jer 51:15
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    15He 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:

  • Jer 10:12
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    12He 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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    5Who removes the mountains, and they don't know it, When he overturns them in his anger

    6Who shakes the earth out of its place; The pillars of it tremble;

    7Who commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, And seals up the stars;

    8Who alone stretches out the heavens, Treads on the waves of the sea;

  • Job 38:13
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    13That 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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    24For he looks to the ends of the earth, And sees under the whole sky.

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

  • Job 11:9-10
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    9The measure of it is longer than the earth, And broader than the sea.

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

  • Job 37:3
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    3He sends it forth under the whole sky, And his lightning to the ends of the earth.

  • Job 26:13
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    13By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

  • Job 34:13
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    13Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • Job 36:30
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    30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.

  • Job 37:18
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    18Can you, with him, spread out the sky, Which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

  • Prov 8:26
    69%

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

  • Job 38:5
    68%

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

  • Jer 4:23
    68%

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

  • Job 22:14
    68%

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

  • Ps 104:5
    68%

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

  • Ps 89:11
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    11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours; The world and its fullness. You have founded them.

  • Isa 42:5
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    5Thus says God Yahweh, he who created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he who spread abroad the earth and that which comes out of it; he who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk therein:

  • Isa 24:1
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    1Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.

  • Job 22:12
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    12"Isn't God in the heights of heaven? See the height of the stars, how high they are!

  • Job 12:15
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    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 28:9
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    9He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, And he overturns the mountains by the roots.

  • Isa 40:17
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    17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

  • Job 37:22
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    22Out of the north comes golden splendor; With God is awesome majesty.

  • Hab 3:6
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    6He 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.

  • Ps 75:3
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    3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

  • Isa 40:12
    67%

    12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

  • Job 38:26
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    26To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, in which there is no man;

  • Amos 9:6
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    6It is he who builds his chambers 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.

  • Ps 65:6
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    6Who by his power forms the mountains, Having armed yourself with strength;

  • Ps 104:2
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    2He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

  • Ps 33:7
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    7He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

  • Job 37:16
    67%

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

  • Ps 135:7
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    7Who 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;

  • Job 37:12
    66%

    12It is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatever he commands them On the surface of the habitable world,

  • Prov 8:29
    66%

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

  • Job 24:22
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    22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.