OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Job 26:8

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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not burst under them.

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Job 26:8 in context

Job 26:5–11

5

“The departed spirits tremble,

those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

6

Sheol is naked before God,

and Abaddon has no covering.

7

He stretches out the north over empty space,

and hangs the earth on nothing.

8
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He binds up the waters in his thick clouds,

and the cloud is not burst under them.

9

He encloses the face of his throne,

and spreads his cloud on it.

10

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters,

and to the confines of light and darkness.

11

The pillars of heaven tremble

and are astonished at his rebuke.

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