Job 26:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.”
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“He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; And the cloud is not rent under them.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, And the cloud is not rent under them.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 26:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 1:6And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
- Genesis 1:7So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.
- Job 36:29Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
- Job 37:11He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- Job 38:9when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its blanket,
- Job 38:37Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens
- Psalms 18:10He mounted a cherub and flew; He soared on the wings of the wind.
- Psalms 135:7He 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.
- Proverbs 8:28when He established the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep gushed forth,
- Proverbs 30:4Who 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— surely you know!
- Isaiah 5:6I 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.”
- Jeremiah 10:13When 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.
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