Devine Scripture

Job 26:8

Job chapter 26 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.

v.8This passage

v.9He incloseth the face of his throne, And spreadeth his cloud upon it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 37:11

    Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning:

  • Proverbs 30:4

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

  • Genesis 1:6

    And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

  • Job 36:29

    Yea, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, The thunderings of his pavilion?

  • Isaiah 5:6

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

  • Job 38:9

    When I made clouds the garment thereof, And thick darkness a swaddling-band for it,