Job 26:10
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
KJV
Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebræ.
Vulgate
πρόσταγμα ἐγύρωσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ὕδατος μέχρι συντελείας φωτὸς μετὰ σκότους.
LXX
He hath described a boundary upon the face of the waters, Unto the confines of light and darkness.
ASV
חֹֽק חָ֭ג עַל פְּנֵי מָ֑יִם עַד תַּכְלִ֖ית א֣וֹר עִם חֹֽשֶׁךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
חָ֭ג
chg
verb · 1×
חֹ֔שֶׁךְ
chshk
noun · 80×
ךָ
k
noun · 126×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
עִם
'm
preposition · 1043×
עַד
'd
noun · 1257×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
תַּכְלִ֖ית
tklyt
noun · 5×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 1:9 — And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
- Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
- Isa 54:9 — For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
- Jer 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss
- Jer 5:22 — Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss
- Job 38:8 — Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
- Job 38:10 — And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
- Prov 8:27 — When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
- Prov 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:
- Ps 33:7 — He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Ps 33:7 — He gathereth the waters of the sea together as an heap: he layeth up the depth in storehouses.
- Ps 104:6 — Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
- Ps 104:9 — Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.