Job 26:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn open by 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

Proverbs 30:4

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is the person’s name? And what is the name of the person’s child? Surely you know!

Jeremiah 10:13

When he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mist rise from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Psalm 135:7

He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth; he makes lightnings for the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

Job 38:37

Who has the wisdom to number the clouds? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens

Job 38:9

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Job 36:29

Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?

Psalm 147:8

He covers the heavens with clouds, prepares rain for the earth, makes grass grow on the hills.

Proverbs 8:28

when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,