Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 26 connects to 10 cross-references. Job's sarcastic reply questions how Bildad's speech has helped the powerless or informed the ignorant. He then describes God's cosmic sovereignty: stretching out the north over empty space, hanging the earth on nothing, binding the waters in clouds, and setting …
Other Translations
He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
Cross References
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall …
For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah …
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for …
And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the …
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the …
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall …