Job 26:10 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.

English Standard Version
He has inscribed a circle on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

New American Standard Bible
"He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters At the boundary of light and darkness.

King James Bible
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He laid out the horizon on the surface of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

International Standard Version
He has delimited a boundary over the surface of the oceans as a limit between light and darkness.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Darby Bible Translation
He hath traced a fixed circle over the waters, unto the confines of light and darkness.

Young's Literal Translation
A limit He hath placed on the waters, Unto the boundary of light with darkness.

Cross References

Job 26:11
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.

Job 38:1
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,

Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Job 38:20
That you should take it to the bound thereof, and that you should know the paths to the house thereof?

Job 38:24
By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth?

Proverbs 8:27
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass on the face of the depth:

Proverbs 8:29
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

26:5-14 Many striking instances are here given of the wisdom and power of God, in the creation and preservation of the world. If we look about us, to the earth and waters here below, we see his almighty power. If we consider hell beneath, though out of our sight, yet we may conceive the discoveries of God's power there. If we look up to heaven above, we see displays of God's almighty power. By his Spirit, the eternal Spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, the breath of his mouth, Ps 33:6, he has not only made the heavens, but beautified them. By redemption, all the other wonderful works of the Lord are eclipsed; and we may draw near, and taste his grace, learn to love him, and walk with delight in his ways. The ground of the controversy between Job and the other disputants was, that they unjustly thought from his afflictions that he must have been guilty of heinous crimes. They appear not to have duly considered the evil and just desert of original sin; nor did they take into account the gracious designs of God in purifying his people. Job also darkened counsel by words without knowledge. But his views were more distinct. He does not appear to have alleged his personal righteousness as the ground of his hope towards God. Yet what he admitted in a general view of his case, he in effect denied, while he complained of his sufferings as unmerited and severe; that very complaint proving the necessity for their being sent, in order to his being further humbled in the sight of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

10. Rather, "He hath drawn a circular bound round the waters" (Pr 8:27; Ps 104:9). The horizon seems a circle. Indication is given of the globular form of the earth.

until the day, &c.—to the confines of light and darkness. When the light falls on our horizon, the other hemisphere is dark. Umbreit and Maurer translate "He has most perfectly (literally, to perfection) drawn the bound (taken from the first clause) between light and darkness" (compare Ge 1:4, 6, 9): where the bounding of the light from darkness is similarly brought into proximity with the bounding of the waters.