Job 26:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He holds the waters bound in His clouds [which otherwise would spill on earth all at once], and the cloud is not rent under them.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.

Common English Bible

⁸ wrapped up water in his clouds, yet they didn’t burst out below;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ He secures the waters in his clouds, so that they do not burst forth downward all at once.

Job 26:8 Cross References

Job 36:29

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

Job 38:9

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

Psalm 135:7

He causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

Psalm 147:8

who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Proverbs 30:4

Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? Who hath gathered the wind in his fists? Who hath bound the waters in a garment? Who hath established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?

Proverbs 8:28

when he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:

Isaiah 5:6

and I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Jeremiah 10:13

When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.