Job 26:8 “He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst unde…”

Job 26:8

He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not burst under them.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

He bindeth the waters in his cloudes, and the cloude is not broken vnder them.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.

Bible in Basic English

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

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Cross references

“bindeth up”

Proverbs 30:4 Jeremiah 10:13 Job 38:9 Job 38:37 Psalm 135:7 Job 36:29

Proverbs 30:4 · BSB

Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in His hands? Who has bound up the waters in His cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is His name, and what is the name of His Son…

Jeremiah 10:13 · BSB

When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Job 38:9 · BSB

when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,

Job 38:37 · BSB

Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

Psalm 135:7 · BSB

He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.

Job 36:29 · BSB

Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?

“thick clouds”

Job 37:11–16 Psalm 18:10 Psalm 18:11

Job 37:11–16 · BSB

He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.

Psalm 18:10 · BSB

He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.

Psalm 18:11 · BSB

He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.

“and the cloud”

Isaiah 5:6

Isaiah 5:6 · BSB

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

7He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

9He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.

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