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Job 26:10
Job 26:10 is verse 10 of Job chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
King James Version
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
World English Bible
He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.
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Job 26:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 38:8Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Job 38:9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
Job 38:10when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
Job 38:11and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
Psalms 33:7He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses.
Psalms 104:6You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
Psalms 104:7At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away—
Psalms 104:8the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—
Psalms 104:9You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
Proverbs 8:29when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth.
Jeremiah 5:22Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
Isaiah 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
Isaiah 54:10Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.