Job 26:7
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
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 stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Stretching out the north over desolation, Hanging the earth upon nothing,
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
Cross References
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit …
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth …
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: …