Job 26:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ He has described a circle on the face of the waters, at the boundary between light and darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ He hath compassed the waters with bounds, Until the day and night come to an end.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ He has placed an enclosing limit [the horizon] upon the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ traced a circle on the water’s surface, at the limit of light and darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ He has set limits around the waters, until light and darkness shall reach their limit.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Job 26:10 Cross References

Genesis 8:22

As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.”

Job 26:11

The pillars of heaven tremble and are astounded at his rebuke.

Job 38:1

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind:

Job 38:19

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light, and where is the place of darkness,

Job 38:20

that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?

Job 38:24

What is the way to the place where the light is distributed or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

Psalm 33:7

He gathered the waters of the sea as in a bottle; he put the deeps in storehouses.

Proverbs 8:27

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,

Proverbs 8:29

when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,

Jeremiah 5:22

Do you not fear me? says the Lord; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.